Reading some of these reviews almost made me not buy this.
One caveat: You can not use this software for commercial purposes, but that is OK with me.
I just finished building a high performance WIN 7 PC and needed a word processor and a spreadsheet program and I didn't want to spend a lot of money for the programs. Since I have digitally downloaded a few games from Amazon before I decided, what the heck, I will give it a shot. Not one problem. Everything went smoothly. I have a pretty good Comcast Internet connection so the download was quite fast. This was all good since I am experimenting with the use of a new 256GB 6g SSD as my operating system - boot drive. When they say the SSD beats out a traditional hard drive they certainly are kidding. Question is: how long will the fast SSD work.
I have been fooling around with changing hardware and software on all types of PCs since the middle 90's. I can understand how there are conditions where trying to download and install this type of offer can have problems. However, due to the funny nature of Windows PCs I personally would not just make a blanket statement that no one should do this. Also, I did have the actual program software download on to my PC. I would, apparently, just use the Amazon installer if I needed to reinstall it over again. I am from the "old school" of working with PCs and I probably will never get used to the new digital distribution and so-called "Cloud" (fancy name for a server if I ever heard one) business models, but they seem to be an improvement over the "old" ways for sure.
Also, don't lose the program key.