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You left a large on off the list, and my personal favorite. Microsoft Works. That takes the case, I use and prefer Windows and MS software to many alternatives, but it does have numerous bugs. And works is so much worse than Office. Thus, the oxymoron.And you left stupid idiot off the redundancies list.~Viz

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