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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 02:01 AM EST |
This is what users might want. It isn't about what their employers are
willing
to buy.
A lot of firms I know are moving away from desktops
to thin clients, both to
keep costs down, and to keep control over what users
are installing.
Besides, thin clients allow them to stick with Windows XP
longer. If it isn't
broken, why mess with it? Really there's nothing new in any
version of
Windows past Win2K which is really a killer requirement for
business.
It also isn't likely to be in the firm's best interests to
shell extra cash for an
Intel tablet when they can buy an inexpensive laptop
for half the price if the
user needs to go mobile. I just don't see the
economic argument making
sense. Oh, some of the bosses and sales reps will get
them, as a prestige
marker, but Joe Worker will just have to make
do.
So the users might want these, but unless they are willing to
pull the cash
out of their own pockets, I don't think they are likely to get
them.
Effectively this is the same set of arguments we saw claiming
that every
corporate worker would end up using a high end laptop. Didn't
happen.
Won't happen here
either.
Wayne
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 03:52 AM EST |
First buy a good spade to go digging for the report. None of
the prattling blogs give a link, and Google can find only
vaguely related matters in Forrester's own blogs.
Now MS probably laid down a stack of Benjamins, I can't tell
without reading it, but if I walk in off the street I am invited
to also put 2495 green notes on the table before peeking at
"2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends"
Curiously the sub-head reads
"More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple"
meanwhile at forums.somethingawful.com (no link, genteel
Groklegians might disagree with the rest of the content there)
they are still getting round the math that extrapolates 32%
of 9766 to get 200 million, and also came up with this gem:
Forrester correctly predicted the rocketship-like rise of Google-TV.
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Authored by: ailuromancy on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 07:07 AM EST |
32% would by Windows, 26% iOS, 12% Android.
They do not mention the other
30%.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 07:02 PM EST |
I know Microsoft have a reputation for vapourware, but I didn't know they had
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Authored by: stegu on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 07:13 PM EST |
sales of Microsoft’s new software are faring better than some may
have expected
Interesting, non-specific wording there.
"Some
may have expected" the sales to be zero.
I didn't expect that, but "some may
have".
They are most certainly faring better than that.
However, recent web
statistics indicates that the
adoption of Windows 8 is slower than
Vista,
and Vista was most definitely a failure.
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