Bob - Made me go back and read the original question myself haha... The Title is about all I read I guess... I did catch about MS OFFICE 2007 but that was reading from another post to the subject...
I was hesitant too at first but went ahead and did the 8.1 machines and they went without hitch. Then I had to read up on what others were doing to get the WIN 7 machines to work.
The part I didn't like about what MS did was offer a couple of programs that was included but was only good for a year from the fine print. Then when you tried to not load those in the beginning was kinda of hard to do...
I'm also not all the enthused about living in the cloud for storage of everything... that is really scary for me...
I backup to my external USB hard drives...
Roy Ken