2013年9月20日星期五

An enterprise tablets for sale might be their best hope-priceangels.com

The obvious outcome of the acquisition is that Microsoft now becomes a full-fledged hardware company. Past in-house hardware has been presented as “one-off” products, with Microsoft assuring hardware partners that it would avoid cannibalizing their sales. With Nokia, this “gentlemen’s agreement” will likely come to an end, at least with smartphones and tablets for sale.
One of the major complaints with Windows Phone and Windows 8 on tablets for sale, and really any new release of Windows, is that the software and the device don’t integrate well. By buying Nokia’s hardware capabilities, Microsoft hopes to steal a page from the Apple playbook and bring hardware and software under one tightly integrated roof.
The other obvious benefit to purchasing Nokia is that Microsoft’s mobile offerings have largely failed to meet their sales targets, a fact that has not gone unnoticed by Microsoft’s hardware partners. With sagging desktop and laptop sales, tablets are a key component of all the hardware players’ growth strategies. Major hardware partners have quietly abandoned plans to release new tablets based on Windows RT, and in many cases are turning to Android for their tablet offerings.

Despite well-designed hardware, Microsoft’s own Surface line of tablets has failed to achieve commercial success and still struggles with areas like battery life where Nokia may be able to help.On the enterprise tablet front, the obvious benefit we’ll see from this match is a new series of Windows tablets. It’s a safe bet that such a device was already in the works, and the only question is how quickly the combined company will be able to implement the benefits of a tighter integration between hardware and software.

If it wants to succeed, Microsoft needs a comprehensive and cohesive line of tablets. At the entry level, a successor to the Surface that offers a more familiar tablets for sale format vs. its current laptop-like screen, while retaining the high quality hardware, snap-on keyboard, and battery life would be a good start, assuming low pricing is maintained. At the upper end, a tablet running Windows 8 in a similar form factor with well-executed pen input might make enterprise inroads.f56DSF34

On the consumer front, the availability of Office on a tablet has failed to set the world on fire, even with the aggressive pricing of the Surface RT. Everyone should have the ability to use a cheap tablets for sale or computer. The prices still need to drop, and Tobii is still working on software for other operating systems, like MacOS X, Android, and iOS for iPad, but things are moving in the right direction. Give it some years, and you may have an eye tracking tablet of your own.

The $799 Surface Pro, which runs the full version of Windows 8 and supports both desktop software and Modern UI titles; and the $349 Surface RT, which includes a version of Microsoft Office but is otherwise confined to tablet apps. According to various reports, Microsoft plans to replace these options with three new tablets.The devices will include refreshed versions of the Surface RT and Surface Pro as well as an 8-inch Windows cheap 10 inch tablet. The updated Surface Pro will reportedly be called Surface Pro 2 but the new Surface RT will simply go by Surface 2 -- a sign that Microsoft recognizes how much the Windows RT nomenclature has confused and repelled consumers. The smaller tablet's name isn't yet known, though some are calling it the "Surface Mini."

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