Universal (country-wide) professional adoption, which implicitly requires equivalent display of features that are not often used by the general public.

For a similar reason, faxes will never die out in the US, because the legal industry requires them.

> Universal (country-wide) professional adoption, which implicitly requires equivalent display of features that are not often used by the general public.

That was my hunch, too. Okay, but which features, that only are in Word but not on other products?