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Basic Economics
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
http://madhatter.ca

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Yup, the best research money can buy?
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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Try pretending it is true
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%. What if they are penguins?

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The best footware money can buy?
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
the sense of humour to introduce the Microsoft sock...

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The best research money can buy?
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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