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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by mandeepj on Friday August 23, 2013 @04:56PM (#6266209)
"Enterprises will replace their Windows with tablets"

really? What can you do on your tablet in enterprises? You can have them only as an additional device. They don't even have any port where you can plugin something. And, you will have your tablets interact with whom?

At the end of the day, you need real machine running full blown OS to get shit done and not devices meant for playing with those face painting apps.

Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by tomkarlo on Friday August 23, 2013 @05:36PM (#6266380)
Ten years ago, were you saying the same about laptops?

Given that there are already enterprise users out there today on Android and iOS devices, this is a pretty bold claim. (And you can, in fact, plug things into tablets with both operating systems - they have USB support.)

Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by lttlrck on Friday August 23, 2013 @07:39PM (#6266847)
Its just as bold to say you can run enterprise on a tablet. Are there any enterprise running soley on laptops? No servers?
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by tomkarlo on Monday August 26, 2013 @04:50PM (#6279842)
It's not bold at all, since there are lots of enterprise tablet deployments today and products in the market specifically to serve such uses: http://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsung-for-enterprise/in...

These are not all being deployed as "secondary devices" - in many cases companies deploy them because they're cheaper to deploy and maintain than a laptop, which only makes sense if you're not also providing a laptop to the user.

Having companies run solely on laptops or tablets has nothing to do with whether or not there are enterprise tablet deployments. Your logic is flawed.

Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by hhandoko on Friday August 23, 2013 @10:43PM (#6267354)
Thin clients for VDI for one, and the trend does seem to go that way. With current generation hardware, a good 1U server can support 50 - 100 desktop simultaneously.
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by tanzam75 on Saturday August 24, 2013 @01:15AM (#6267723)
And then Microsoft makes money by selling 50-100 Remote Desktop CALs to replace those 50-100 physical desktops. The price per CAL is about 90% of the price per license of Windows. But add in the base price of the Windows Server license, and you're back to essentially the same price.

Net impact on Microsoft's bottom line: zero.

Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by Roboprog on Saturday August 24, 2013 @06:58PM (#6270167)
At first. But eventually, less and less will run on the 370^H^H^H Windows box, as people get native clients (or good HTML 5+ clients) for email, memos and spreadsheets, and only "that legacy .NET app we still have to use" will be on the big-iron rack in the DP donjon.
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by chris_mahan on Friday August 23, 2013 @06:15PM (#6266541)
no port needed. everything wireless. I'm waiting for NFC keyboards.

google now says you interact with the tablet by voice, and you watch the screen with your eyes. Now, tablets can even derive events from looking at your face (samsung you look away video stops).

Noticed you don't need a mouse with a tablet?

Oh, the software will have to be rewritten, no doubt, but since most of the software is interface anyway...