There is a tablet optimized interface as well as the standard interface.
Apple and Open Source solutions create abandonware on a fairly regular basis. Apple ditched its hardware platform multiple times in the last decade, leaving its legacy customers with obsolete software and hardware. Open Source packages like Open Office and others end up abandoned by the consortiums that lead them due to sponsor company restructuring, disinterest by the lead developer, arrested for murdering his wife and a host of other reasons.
As the market leader, Microsoft does not have the luxury afforded open source and Apple to simply deprecate its legacy software to abandonware. Microsoft has an responsibility and a duty to not only continue to innovate and lead, but to support the industries on which its innovation and leadership are based on.
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