1. The Basic "pleb" edition. Actually, how about a Microsoft Works? Does a lotta things and comes free as a name brand computer purchase. Don't like that? Think it's wimpy because it doesn't have a Ribbon? Or is it wimpy because it doesn't know what it really is? Ok, let's continue. The Basic is currently Word, Excel, Outlook. Enough? Not really. If you want to reduce the number of groans from the web people, I would have thrown in Expression Web. Because today is all about the web. Heck, even kids in primary school are writing web pages.
2. The Student Teacher Edition has Word, Excel, OneNote. Clever about the OneNote - it will give them a rich featured but disorganised organiser. I would add Groove. Why Groove? Well, they know how to Torrent and IM. Groove fits into that lifestyle and offers a raft of facilities that does not require IT tech support and administration. And Groove would unleash a whole universe of third party Groove plugins that could do distributed computing, sharing, collaboration.
3. The Standard Edition has Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint. Ok. Fine. Don't people take notes though? Why not OneNote, with it's shared simultaneous note taking?
4. The Small Business Edition has Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, enhanced Outlook, Accounting Express and Publisher. Why not Groove and shared OneNote? You mean Microsoft doesn't know that nowadays, even workgroups of less than 5 people often don't sit in the same place and often work from home to flex work and family? You mean Small Business should be intentionally handicapped and keep pages and pages card index? Shh, don't even mention Business Intelligence to them. Where's Microsoft Access so that these people can get some edge in managing and comparing lists? Again, where's Expression Web?
5. The Professional Edition has Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, enhanced Outlook, Accounting Express, Publisher, Access. Publisher? If you look at a professional corporate officer, the person who excels at Access isn't of the nature to enjoy Publisher (left brain / right brain inclinations). And a departmentalised admin office isn't gonna do any accounting, anyway, bless MYOB. My pick would be Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Access and gift vouchers for advanced training or how-to books from Microsoft Press. Office 2007 is trying to solve the problem that people can't discover or don't understand features more advanced than Cut & Paste. Well, giving them an updated visual tool overcomes the UI hurdle but if they don't understand the underlying concepts behind the feature in the first place, then what? My choice: Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Outlook, Access, Visio, Expression Web.
6. The Ultimate Edition, Professional Plus and Enterprise editions are sorta like "we'll throw in the kitchen sink". Except that they don't need three separate versions to play musical chairs with Outlook, Accounting Express, OneNote, something called Communicator and Integrated Content Management (hmm - is that Office Sharepoint Portal Server?). Ugh! Why not simply take the whole shopping basket to the corporate IT Manager and let them choose for themselves?

What do you think?