Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.embedded,uk.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:46:01 -0700 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <1bidnaffJrtGgXXNnZ2dnUVZ8n2dnZ2d@lyse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net orGl1eMKPv6GXooMCckrTARUQrsK70Pl5+JaLdgbmodaJUiQXhdCQEWXEyzy7rCd0o Cancel-Lock: sha1:tfrFSKGw3C8IjB//csNQDARlE7g= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.35.0.121009 Thread-Topic: The Multi-Billion dollar market opportunity created by Ubuntu on mobiles Thread-Index: Ac3sRnR/AYmKthSW4EO3OUpeJLCnOA== Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:156512 comp.os.linux.embedded:413 On 1/6/13 11:46 AM, in article kccgrb$hcu$1@dont-email.me, "The Real Doctor" 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