Honestly, I think it's too late. The iOS and Android market has met this need. People have been consuming and creating text documents, slideshows, and spreadsheets on both platforms for a long time now, all without usury MS-style licensing fees. I think Windows 8 offered (with much commotion) a solution to a problem that had already been solved, -I think they actually believed that people really needed Office Suite on their tablet. Ignoring mobile OSes, switching to a Mac really underscored how completely disposable Microsoft's cash cows (Office Suite and Windows) are. I bought the latest version of Apple's OSX for nineteen dollars and I've been using Open Office to flawlessly create and work on MS Office spreadsheets and documents, -a free solution I downloaded temporarily that has served me better than the original office suite. Why on Earth would I pay money for these products?
And if I need these solutions on a tablet, how exactly is MS going to price it to compete with Google Docs or a twenty dollar alternative in the iOS app store?
I'm not saying that MS products aren't a great choice because they are for a lot of people, but just that the factors keeping people locked in are gone to a large extent or worse, working agains their platforms. Don't get me wrong, -I think MS needs to get Office on Android and iOS, but really, they are so screwed because their margins are a joke and they let the market realize that they were not needed. They're damned both ways because resounding success in the mobile space for them would look pretty indistinguishable from failure compared to what they are used to.Supposedly MS is working on Office for Android and iOS. They had better be.