I only have MS Office because I sometimes write advisories for law firms and governments, and they don't like it when I send them semi-compatible open office docs because it messes with their templates.

Since I anyway want to go through each article during the process, I don't mind using it that much, but it's not my fav tool. If there were an rss feed for /~*/recent, I'd probably stop using that and just have a script fill a markdown doc straight.