Re:Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD
by sageikosa on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @12:07PM
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Corporate road warriors that need to access the same Office systems the rest of the home-base grunts use.
Let's see if it's actually the same Office. The versions of Office that I got to play with on WinMobile * and WinPhone7 were not on par with Word on windows, or even OpenOffice of the time.
(For all I know, it might still be the best available word processor for tablets; I have never used Apple's "Pages"; but previous versions were ... lacking)
The Office apps that come with the Surface are the real deal. It's the Home and Student version according to the web site.
It's Office RT, whatever that means. I tried to follow the link to the description http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-and-student/office-ho... - but on my Linux/Firefox combination, it shows nothing. Perhaps it's a silverlight thing, but the HTML is so messed up that I wasn't able to see if it was.
Way to go Microsoft!
These are the Windows RT tablets (ARM-based). Presumably a lot of Windows x86 software won't have ARM versions, so I'm not sure these will be popular even among the Microsoft shops.