<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">OMG yes...over 2 minutes to START UP even on the fastest Mac hardware at the time. How embarrassing for Microsoft! And for me as a Mac user.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Nov 17, 2006, at 7:05 AM, nk wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">they got more expensive, more tricky to use, had stiffer hardware requirements and OS requirements, more RAM..remember how people howled right around Word 6 or so?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>