The [Macintosh] Business Unit was formed before the technology agreement. The technology agreement has never determined what we do on the Mac. We would welcome another such agreement, but it isn't necessary for our continued work with Apple.

We've never done a release of Office in less than a year.

We have to fix a lot of bugs, improve our features, and get them working as they should.

Microsoft is excited that it will be providing Mac OS X-compatible applications.

So far we're on target to hit that.

It's not the product we want it to be. We want to improve performance, implement a security infrastructure, and implement HTML and XML rendering.

We're very interested in doing Smart Tag technology, but we didn't do it this time. We will add it some day; probably the next major release.