Let's face it, this is the MS way. Most of the time, anyway. Office products were inferior once. Same goes for search, xbox, touch devices. MS iterates, sometimes slowly, and plays the tortoise. It doesn't always work (zune, bing), but sometimes it does (word, excel, xbox). The only caveat is the competition this time is Apple and Google. That's tougher sledding than Sony, Nintendo, Corel, Lotus, Novell et al. Then again, they've done battle with IBM, Oracle, and a different version of Apple in the past and found wins. Never write MS off on v1.