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"We see the x86-based Pro as a corporate [laptop] replacement. This offering has more potential because the OS is backward compatible, has more robust security, leverages the existing installed base, and offers full Office support (and consistent file management). We expect the Pro (and its forthcoming ilk) will compete directly with touch enabled ultrabooks / corporate [laptops]. The Pro tablet has the potential to slow the rate of iPad penetration into enterprise accounts."
But Whitmore quickly qualified this as a "best case scenario" because Microsoft is "swimming upstream against the consumerization of IT," referring to employees who bring their own iPads to work.
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Windows Pro Surface tablets must also contend with the iPad's superior battery life and the iPad's large number of third-party apps, he said.
RT tablets -- built around Windows RT and ARM silicon -- have even less chance against the iPad
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-574...rge-companies/
I suspect many will say 'what? the x86 version has more software than the iPad'. It does....but not for touch.
You cannot take a traditional desktop and mouse centric application and expect it to work well with touch. It has to be redone. That is the advantage he is probably discussing.