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Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles

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On 1/6/13 11:46 AM, in article kccgrb$hcu$1@dont-email.me, "The Real Doctor"
<ian.groups@btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 06/01/13 17:43, David Brown wrote:
>> I've heard the "Windows 8 tablets will do well in corporations" theory
>> before, but I can't say I agree with it.  It will certainly do better
>> there than in the consumer market, but I cannot really think of many
>> reasons why anyone would want a tablet (rather than a small laptop) for
>> business use - and no reason at all why anyone would prefer a Windows 8
>> tablet over an iPad or Android tablet.
>> 
>> The only selling point that springs to mind is that a Windows tablet can
>> run MS Office, giving better compatibility with MS Office on desktops
>> (but not perfect compatibility - there never is between different
>> versions of MS Office).  Yet the office software market is more
>> diversified now than it has been for years - the increased use of Google
>> office and other on-line tools, along with Libre Office / Open Office,
>> is making MS Office less necessary.
> 
> LibreOffice or OpenOffice have, for all practical purposes, no presence
> in the corporate world at all. You and I might not like that, but that's
> how it is. Furthermore, office software is now far more than
> spreadsheets and word processing. There is nothing in the FOSS world
> which comes even close to the functionality of MS office these days and
> in particular to the integration of email and telephony.

True... though PowerPoint is still far behind Keynote... which is just
weird. 

> A Windows 8 tablet with full Outlook / Lync / Office compatibility will
> be a very attractive proposition indeed to the corporate market.
> Meanwhile, the best I can do with Linux and Lync is set my status to
> "not available".
> 
> Ian



-- 
"90% of computers use Microsoft's Windows ... Macs account for 9% of the
market while the open source system Linux accounts for 0.8%."
-- Linus Torvalds

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The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-01-04 22:36 +0000
  Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-04 18:16 -0500
    Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2013-01-04 23:24 +0000
      Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-01-04 18:30 -0500
        Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-04 18:59 -0500
        Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2013-01-05 02:26 +0100
          Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2013-01-05 12:13 +0000
            Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2013-01-05 13:30 +0100
              Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-01-05 13:58 -0600
              Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2013-01-05 23:44 +0000
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2013-01-06 18:43 +0100
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2013-01-06 18:46 +0000
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-01-06 19:08 +0000
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2013-01-06 19:38 +0000
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2013-01-07 07:59 +0000
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-01-06 12:46 -0700
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-01-06 15:50 -0600
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2013-01-07 10:08 +0000
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2013-01-07 10:25 +0000
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-01-07 10:30 -0600
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2013-01-07 17:13 +0000
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-01-07 17:00 -0600
                Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2013-01-07 07:57 +0000
              Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-07 08:41 -0600
          Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-01-05 08:41 -0500
  Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles Chris Hills <chaz@chaz6.com> - 2013-01-12 12:46 +0000
    Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles Chris Ahlstrom <admin@cyberbully.com> - 2013-01-12 09:57 -0500

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