I agree with you on the progress of Office/MS tools. The lock-ins are my bigget pet peeve but otherwise their tools have come a long way.
As for fighting upstream, I've found it easier to demo than go head-on. A few nice screenshot sequences without indication of the program.
Primavera is looking very good.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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