I don't consider shipping Office 2010 a lofty goal... Come on, we are trying to make the world a better place.
As someone currently doing two migrations from Outlook (I finally got approval to get rid of Windows on my corporate notebook and my wife is moving her Exchange-based mail to an IMAP server) I can say any shipment of Office 2010 prevented means at least one more happy person ;-)
As for the other options, making the next 10M trade or becoming a grad student, I think you should follow your heart.
As someone currently doing two migrations from Outlook (I finally got approval to get rid of Windows on my corporate notebook and my wife is moving her Exchange-based mail to an IMAP server) I can say any shipment of Office 2010 prevented means at least one more happy person ;-)
As for the other options, making the next 10M trade or becoming a grad student, I think you should follow your heart.