Re:Windows 8 for tablet hands on
by buff-a on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @05:50PM
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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.
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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?