Are Microsoft Tablets the Only Option in the Enterprise? Hint: No

December 3, 2012
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list of Android adopters include Arizona State and Seton Hall universities, the US Army and Navy, Honeywell, Bayada, Philadelphia Enquirer, Verizon, it goes on and on.  Hundreds of them. It’s even more extensive for iPad adoption.  His table is shown below: So the myth of Microsoft invincibility in the enterprise on new form factors, at least for me, is pretty much dispelled. Offering Surface Pro at over a grand is almost certain to fail. Cannot anyone in Redmond see this? Sure, Microsoft have an out: they can always argue that the Surfaces (RT and Pro) were never meant to succeed sales-wise, just as reference points for OEMs. That would be untrue. No one invests that amount of time and effort to fizzle out. Like Onuora Amobi at Windows 8 Update writes, if the Surface Pro was offered at $699, with a keyboard thrown in, it would be a hit. Late in coming, but a hit nevertheless. I happen to agree.]]>

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Mike Johnson is a writer for The Redmond Cloud - the most comprehensive source of news and information about Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Cloud. He enjoys writing about Azure Security, IOT and the Blockchain.

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