As usual MS did little, when they could do more. There are a large number of users, including businesses (the only customers MS cares about), who will not be able to use this.

They know how many will not update Windows from 2000 or 98, especially with the locked in corporate licensing issues. They know how many still use Office 2000 and see no reason to upgrade, specially when Office 2003 kills backward compatibility making it impossible to go back to an earlier version.

Gates must have had an idle moment one day and done this to fill the time, because he sure as hell didn't give a damn about the consumer with this pathetic offering.