UK teen crowned world Microsoft Word 2007 champion

While this is pretty ridiculous, I want to point out that it wouldn't be that ridiculous if he was crowned world Microsoft Excel champion.

He would be on the fast track to the financial sector and .NET supremacy.

Word is generally not an amazing thing to be "champion" of. Excel might be though

The UK also counts the world's Excel 2007 champ among its citizens http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14401766

Good lord. There's no way that lady doesn't have a high-ranking job by now.

[EDIT] - automatically assumed it was a 'guy'.

"Career-wise I think it will show any employers I know how to use a Microsoft Office product"

"With school, I'll be able to write reports and essays and stuff and make it a bit more fancy, to hopefully get a few extra marks."

Is this a joke?

I bet he has every trick in the book for reaching page counts without changing the content.

Did bbc.co.uk get taken over by theonion.com?

The article gives absolutely no context around what being a 'word champion' even means... this is useless

I'm sure if they went into a lot of detail on how they defined world champion you could rest assured that it would remain useless.

...why is this on Hacker News?...

Why Word 2007, instead of Word 2010 or Word 2013?