The article barely touched upon what I think will be the biggest downside to using Office on 7 and 8-inch screens, and that is the utter unusability of the Office interface on a screen that size. There are already dozens of reviews of Office on the Surface RT that complain of not being able to hit the teensy little targets and buttons, and not being able to see what you’re doing. And that’s on a 10-inch device! Unless there is a wholesale change of interface, I can’t imagine how horrible it would be to use traditional Office on small screens.
Edited 2013-06-07 10:24 UTC