Stupid Technology!

Ok I just spent the last hour trying to find PowerPoint on my home computer. Granted I have had the computer for almost 1 year, but I have never used or needed to use PowerPoint on here...until tonight! So I've been searching & all I could find is this stupid PowerPoint Viewer 2003. Now tell me why anyone would need to view a PowerPoint and never make one? Good Question for microsoft, I'll be calling them later! Moving on with the story...I finally figured out that our stupid computer did not come with PowerPoint only PowerPoint Viewer. Needless to say David & I dug through all of our papers that came with the computer and finally found a free 60 day trial for Microsoft works 2003. This realy didn't make sense to me since we have Microsoft Windows XP, but whatever, I was desperate, so I went ahead and downloaded it. So now we have PowerPoint for 60 whole days. We are obviously going to have to purchase the full version later so that I can do my homework. So my question is this...Did all yall's computers come without powerpoint? Or am I just the lucky one that happened to get a stripped down model? Just Curious