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"In the last 15 years, Microsoft Office has gone from a must-have product to largely irrelevant to the success of the biggest product category in technology: mo
by OGinparadise 14y ago
"In the last 15 years, Microsoft Office has gone from a must-have product to largely irrelevant to the success of the biggest product category in technology: mobile computing"
Yeah, since Android and iPhone came businesses no longer need Word or Excel. /sarcasm
- misnome 14y ago"In the last 15 years, Microsoft Office has gone from a must-have product to largely irrelevant to the success of the biggest product category in technology: mobile computing" "Office has gone ... to largely irrelevant to the success of ... mobile computing" Since it hasn't been on any of the "mobile computing" devices, I'm not sure why the sarcasm is needed. It's not like this sentence is saying "Office is now irrelevant", just that it hasn't contributed to this particular area.
- OGinparadise 14y agoOne scenario: Businesses use Office. Business are still doing their work largely on desktops but if there's an Office App for iPad some might be more likely to get iPads instead of laptops.
- rednukleus 14y agoAlmost no businessmen are going to go iPad only. Many businessmen are going to go Desktop/Laptop + Tablet, and in the future many are going to go for something like a docked Surface Pro. The threat that iPads pose to Enterprise is completely overblown. They aren't going to stop buying desktops/laptops, they are just going to buy both desktops/laptops and tablets.