(rant) why microsoft is not easy to use

[Tyler Spivey]

oh, can someone please tell me how to get word (crap) to open (with c-o) in a certain directory?
this is sort of important for my science class, but i could always bang at the help which ... <rants more>
well, here's my small story.
i was in science class, and wanted to tell word (that word processor that just
can't do anything) where to save its stuff and open by default.
i asked two computer teachers, and nothing. i looked, and nothing. i knew i had it before, but still, nothing.
so i'm stuck with that. that's not easy to use. hitting
backspace in the file lists, and having jfw  announce other information, is entirely useless.
and not to mention the windows calculator:
i got sick of doing c-esc p a c c a dozen times until i got it,
so just type calc from the run dialog - but anyway,
i was in calc, (it really really sucks), and 
i made a typo. i hit enter, and it hung the program. jaws still worked,
but i didn't know it was hung, because it was eating up all my CPU and making jaws slow.
so i ahd to ask someone to come over and fix it, because i couldn't access the
task manager. now that is ease-of-use? yeah right.
in linux, i could have hit alt-f2 and typed:
killall -9 calc
and it would have (usually) been done.
same with my scsi addapter - it worked under linux (sort of), worked great under 
freebsd, but died under ms. i no longer have any ms products on my hard drives,
and am puting off the day my father needs ms as long as possible, because i keep
"losing" the cds. i probably place them somewhere and forget.
ms is junk. maybe not for some things, but for most things it doesn't even work properly.
you have a disk crash, you're wasting copies of jfw. 
what about jfw and ie? i went to a teacher's page,
under ie and edbrowse,
and jaws said (under ie) something like a long url.
edbrowse said the alt text. arg.
i pop into dos so often to copy that science document (in .txt of course), or mkdir something -
explorer is ... dull. you have to actually press a lot of keys to resize the columns.
which, b the way, jaws says "blank", and that is a pain.
ms doesn't have any sort of api to explorer as far as i know, so we're stuck with truncated file names until we resize the columns.
and i hate multi-column lists, because you constantly gotta arrow around to get at 'm.
same with word - it lands you on the first file, skipping folders. that should be configurable, not a forced default.
or where i want to open my files, not in the ms office directory.