What desktop PC? Running what? I do have a desktop PC and I do do business with Word documents. But on my latest machine I have yet to install Office (though I have two legal copies) because Google Docs works just fine.
Ah, I forgot that every person out there is like you.
Sarcasm aside, a lot of people still use Office. Far more than use Google Docs. Even businesses that are using Google Apps for e-mail still use Office for their documents. Being able to edit documents with 100% reliability on a tablet could be a big deal when it comes to corporate tablet purchases, for a start.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/09/06/com...
"Microsoft’s average revenue from its Office suite licenses sold to enterprise and retail customers has been declining due to competition from cloud-based app providers like Google, Amazon and Salesforce.com, and also due to increasing lower priced products sales in emerging markets."
Sales have been declining- they haven't stopped.
There are still a ton of companies out there that use office. Creating a Windows Tablet could well cause sales of Office to increase.
The moment a decent windows 8 tablet comes out, the iPads in our company will be gone.
Re:Windows 8 for tablet hands on
by josephcooney on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:31AM
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Care to elaborate on the reasons why? Locked out of the network by paranoid sys admins? People will flock to the compatibility with existing apps? You work at MS?
Any tablet can create spreadsheets, but not as well as Excel. Any tablet can create a document, but not one that's going to be 100% compatible with the version of Word they have on their desktop PC. Those are all very strong reasons to buy a Windows Tablet.