Who came up with Microsoft Word’s default style?

Can’t they come up with a student version that has the standard double-spacing and serif font and regular margins and normal header and no extra spacing between paragraphs?

My students just don’t seem to get it.

And while I’m ranting, why didn’t I scare away more students this year? Come on, I’m mean and onery and expect students to rewrite papers. Maybe I should have had the first paper due much earlier? Any other ideas on what I should do to scare them away?