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>Businesses are not going to put iPads on peoples’ desks any time soon, nor are they going to ditch Microsoft Office in favor of Google Docs. That's interestin
by mdm_ 13y ago
>Businesses are not going to put iPads on peoples’ desks any time soon, nor are they going to ditch Microsoft Office in favor of Google Docs.
That's interesting, because at MPoW we've been using Google Docs for several years and at most meetings I attend, you can look around the table and not see a single laptop; everyone is using a tablet or smartphone.
It's amazing how fast it's changed too. When I started here ~4.5 years ago, Office documents shared on network drives or emailed back and forth was the norm and if you had a meeting of n people, you can be sure there would be n laptops around the table.
- tluyben2 13y agoYep. It's changing really fast. BYOD is so popular here with big companies; clunky laptops are unopened for months at a time while employees happily use iPads for everything. Even if the company didn't pay for them. I myself cannot imagine how you do a lot of the work (or play) on tablets; but I know many people typing entire documents (books, (white)papers) on their tables in favour of laptops/desktops. So I see it changing fast; some people will not drop their keyboards, but when I get into a train now full of business people, you can count the laptops on 1 hand; the rest having iPads. That was completely different a few years ago.
- jnovak 13y agoI also found that statement jarring. Google Docs' collaborative editing is so useful in the workplace that standalone editors like Microsoft Office / OpenOffice seem like a quaint artifact of history to me.