A few months ago there was a front page article looking back at WordPerfect for DOS. I commented that modern text-based apps never seem to look as good as mid-80s DOS apps for some reason. So it's apropos that Microsoft of all companies launches an old-school app like this.
I think a large part of it is that DOS made it really easy to make good TUI apps, what with direct access to the text framebuffer and keyboard. Unix console is a mess in comparison (albeit with its own advantages such as remoting). And the modern crop of TUI apps is almost entirely Unix-centric; this one is a very rare exception.
