Microsoft waves white flag: We'll put Outlook on Windows RT slabs

...'many users naively think'...

...."free smartphone apps and social networks are good Samaritans giving them something for free, rather than making money by selling ads on the basis of harvesting users' personal data."

Barnum (or his competitor) :- "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute". So that's one security problem that'll continue ad-infinitum...

Consumer vs Enterprise

Apple is a consumer electronics company. Microsoft is an enterprise software vendor.

RT was Microsoft trying to get additional market share in the consumer electronics space with something besides their game console. The only people really interested in RT however were enterprise oriented.

Mass consumer slab people have no interest in Outlook. It's inclusion now is a response to criticism from the enterprise side which doesn't really want a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) environment. Enterprises remember what happened when PC's first entered corporations. It wasn't long before IT had to get involved to corral all the cats. Now that everything is tied into the corporate network again with computing being controlled and dictated by IT, they don't want to go back to having to deal with a variety of consumer devices which they have not endorsed being used in business operations. They want a slab to pacify their employees and they want one that will enable their employees to work within the IT environment as it now exists and which for many is a Microsoft shop or at the least uses Microsoft applications.

That's my two cents for what it's worth.