What irks me about this whole dependence on MS Office is that MS Office 2011, particularly Word, is (are?) crap on the Mac (might even be as useless on the PC for all I know). It's likely to be even more worthless on a tablet. I have become so exasperated with Word on the Mac these days when I try to control image and table placement that I now do ALL EDITING in Pages and export to Word so the poor Windows saps can use them. In fact I have edited publishable documents in Pages that I would never attempt in Word. Word is particularly good at scrambling entire documents, while Pages actually works much like a page layout program.