Gentlemen, you are quite right. Microsoft has foisted ridiculously top-heavy software on a hapless public, by assuming people are too lazy to read. Fortunately, talk forums such as this one are proving them wrong. Where TV turned people into couch potatoes, the Net is liberating them to some extent by making them active participants in the process. It is also allowing great worldwide communications between private individuals, and that is an excellent thing, so there is something to be happy about there.