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: Huge 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: 7 Jan 2013 07:59:16 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <1bidnaffJrtGgXXNnZ2dnUVZ8n2dnZ2d@lyse.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 5/ZKDx2RF7F2OyeItfCOQwhckrzfSUeGTIQbwfaQnfKA1Ms/eEjcVs+X/6ELBNDkbn Cancel-Lock: sha1:YGx42bP80zBp/9ltrxU0TSzukHE= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:156593 comp.os.linux.embedded:416 On 2013-01-06, 7 wrote: > 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. > > How does that work? What do you mean, "work"? That's just how it is. > If some 10% of PCs are expected to ship with Ubuntu next year, Yeah. Right. -- Today is Boomtime, the 7th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3179 Don't do business with Churchill Insurance - they're slime.