Isn't that rayiner's point, though? rayiner argues that Microsoft should have shipped without a feature at all, rather than shipping with a broken feature (e.g. shipping Surface RT without Office rather than with broken Office), which is what Apple did with the copy/paste feature on the iPhone.
He says it shouldn't have shipped with a buggy Office. It may not be correct to infer from that it should have shipped with no Office, it is just as consistent with a preference that the Surface line shipped without Surface RT. Or at least that, given a commitment to Surface RT, making Office work properly on it was treated as a prerequisite for launch.
Its also worth noting, with regard to the Apple comparison, that "copy/paste" wasn't a central selling feature of iPhone, whereas "it runs Office" was a central selling feature of Surface, including RT.
