Do you think that microsoft products are becoming worse each year?

I mostly agree with you. They have gotten worse each year (although some nice improvements have been made in a few areas too, in fairness) but the reason I say worse is because they have become more and more intrusive by getting too involved in anti-piracy efforts, spying abilities, allowing gov entities to develop more and more of a 'commercial' OS, etc. Not listening to users requests for privacy and security too by only "pretending" to have addressed the issue yet not created a product that is safe to use including a web browser from hell. And Yes, less customizable. The Windows Registry is the worst nightmare since the beginning of time. I mean, the functionality of the registry has been helpful and was a Great idea, however in reality it often fails (ever tried to uninstall an application and actually get it all OUT of there!?!).

You mentioned Mac is not higher than Apple but I believe that depends on individual needs.

EXAMPLE: For serious gamers, go Windows/PC. For those who just want to get stuff done and want it to actually WORK, go Apple. For those wanting to get away from Windows' flaws and control, Mac's controlling everything and just have some freedoms and reliability again, go Linux! Again - it is a personal needs/views thing from person to person.

Oh, back to MS - about MS Word - the new Interface is horrible. To this day I can not easily just whip through what I want to do without having to dig sometimes for an excessive amount of time looking for a simple function. For this reason, I stick with Linux as my main OS and OpenOffice as my office app.

I've used Microsoft OS's since before there was a "Windows" UI and I really like Windows 7. (Anyone remember the speediest computer of its time, the x286?) Most of us use computers to get things done and don't really spend a lot of time customizing the UI. As long as most of what we need to use is accessible and remains accessible from version to version, then we're happy campers.

OK, since you mentioned Word and since I absolutely hate Word, let me say a few things. Word is and always has been the least well-organized, least intuitive word processing software on the face of the planet. I stuck it out with Lotus' office suite as long as I could before MS Office finally killed it off. I cannot print to various sized card stock to make invitations, etc. with Word. One would think that the developers might realize that some of us would like to use Word to make cards and invitations that we didn't have to print on 8.5x11 paper and then waste time cutting out "a mano". I asked about this on MS Office forum and got 0, zip, nada, zed, zilch, etc. responses.

Also, what I could do with one or two clicks in AmiPro or WordPro, is buried in Word and takes a search and rescue team to find. The same goes for PowerPoint. I was fairly competent with Excel and Access through v2003. Then the ribbon came along and I haven't used either one of them. Thank Heavens I haven't had to use them but on more than one occasion it would have been nice to be able to use them.

Quite the contrary. They get better all the time. Sounds like your problem is not knowing how to run a computer to begin with. Hard to stay organized? LOL. Hardly. Do you know how to create folders?

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Have you ever tried using a 'Mac' ?

As for microsoft products. I still use xp. Tried win 7 and vista. I hated them