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It's rather obvious.

MOST people actually like real features in Office suites, and the fact that MS Office is able to do a ton of functions, make creating docs, spreadsheets, slides, so easy, and the fact that there's a nice online service to complement that (Office Live Workspaces, ClipArt, templates, etc.) makes it pretty obvious to have.

And it doesn't cost that much if you buy in bulk, get a student discount, find special sales, or many other ways to get a copy legally. There's even this special deal out there to get all of Office for only $60 : http://theultimatesteal.com/

Google has nothing over MS Office, and it's good for people who just really can't afford Office software, but that's about it.

And what's with the part about the desktop icons? If you don't want those shortcuts, delete them. I don't have any Office shortcuts littering my desktop, thank you very much.

And what do you mean about sharing? There's Office Live Workspaces, SharedView is another free way, you can access by servers in a business, use a flash drive, etc. It's not that hard.

If you're really not smart enough to know where to get Office for a discount, understand how Office 07' works super easily, and don't know about ways to share Office files, then go ahead and get Google Docs. But don't try converting others that do know.