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I think these points are specifically addressing bringing an ipad to meetings where you're less likely to be producing so much as consuming or discussing (most

I think these points are specifically addressing bringing an ipad to meetings where you're less likely to be producing so much as consuming or discussing (most of the time).

Silhouette 13y ago
Right, but that suggests there are also desktop/laptop machines running "real Office" that the same people use for creating new material. Microsoft still make an awful lot of money serving that market. Meanwhile, the norms for selling tablet software are very different to traditional business software. ("What, you want me to pay TEN WHOLE DOLLARS for an app that's going to save me at least an hour every day? Are you crazy?!") Releasing a full office suite onto tablets is not a no-brainer decision in that context, and I'm not surprised the new CEO hasn't pushed the button yet. It seems unlikely that a tablet version would make anything like the revenues per user the traditional desktop version did. Perhaps MS can establish some sort of subscription SaaS model here, but I'm extremely sceptical about the long-time viability of that model as a replacement for traditional COTS software products. On the other hand, if a tablet version provided a decent viewing platform for people who do do more reading than writing, it could potentially damage desktop sales if those people would otherwise have been added into the site licence or similar for the full desktop suite but no longer feel they need to be because they can just use the tablet at their desks as well.
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