Showing posts with label Tablets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tablets. Show all posts

Outlook is a game changer for Windows RT tablets



Microsoft has announced that the 2013 Outlook RT RT will be coming to Windows, with Windows 8.1 update. Sale Windows RT RT underwhelming tablets like the Surface so far, but the Outlook will change that. When Windows 8.1 update comes in the store Windows later this year, will join the RT Word Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote as a free app on Windows RT systems. This is huge news in General, but this is especially intriguing to business users.


Surface RT (RT for Windows and tabs in General) is a decent tablet, but it's not a great device for business computing. It has clear advantages over its Surface Pro sister is thinner, lighter, cooler, quieter and has much better battery life, but he was unable to join a Windows domain.


Windows Update 8.1 it still will not be able to join a network domain, but he and BYOD 8.1 in Windows Management features make it a much friendlier to business. Add Outlook is a real game changer, though. The default mail client in Windows 8.1 is not suitable for Outlook and business users need consistency among the tools that they use on their main PC and applications available on the Tablet Windows RT.


It is expected that the smaller Windows tablets, starting later this year. Small size, coupled with features Windows 8.1 (and Outlook) will make Windows RT tablets are very powerful business tools. Earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang told an audience of financial analysts, "If Outlook to show at RT, my life will be complete," Adding, "I'm one of the Outlook on computing nirvana. God, please ... " Assuming that "God" means Outlook Steve Ballmer, Huang's guilt apparently fell on deaf ears. Minions ...I mean Microsoft developers ... Juan heard in prayer.


NVidia CEO: why care? nVidia has a vested interest in the success of Windows RT, because this makes the ARM processors, which are used in some Windows RT tablets. The success of RT for Windows means more demand for processors nVidia. Outlook 2013 RT is a very welcome addition to the suite of Office applications for Windows RT devices, but it could be better. This may be the Outlook of MX. Microsoft has engineered 2013 Office be more touch than in previous versions, but it still hits the desktop mode, and it is harder to work with than on touchscreen application designed specifically for Windows MX 8 as OneNote.


Cover the keyboard touch and type are actually part of the surface of the Tablet experience, so Surface RT users still have a physical keyboard and touchpad to work with. but most other Windows tablets that are not RT for and used exclusively as touch screen tablets. There will be fewer Windows RT tablets with Outlook
great mobile business tools. OneNote MX, with a radial menu that offers a much better experience than 2013 OneNote at work with touch screen. It does not appear to be part of this upgrade, but Microsoft should be working on the development of special versions of Windows MX 8 of all Office applications.


The Bureau is a powerful carrot, Microsoft hopes will lure customers on Windows tablets — be it Windows or Windows 8 Pro RT models. Add Outlook is a significant advantage for Windows RT pills, but even if Windows RT doubles ... or even triple its market share, would still be a massive audience of iOS and Android tablet users are left in the cold. According to the document, reportedly leaked an internal plan, a couple of months ago Outlook RT shouldn't have been ready before the end of 2014. The plan also proposed that the Bureau for iOS and Android are also becoming available around the same time.


The roadmap could leak was just wrong. Assuming that this was legitimate, the accelerated availability of Outlook offers hope that RT sparks Bureau for iOS and Android will also be available sooner than expected. I asked Microsoft whether it is so. If Microsoft works on iOS or Android versions of Office applications, it is still being coy about it. The official response I got was, ' we have a great experience on Windows 8 tablets.  For the iPad and Android tablets can people use Office Web Apps.


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Smaller Windows 8 tablets will be huge



Microsoft has confirmed that smaller Windows 8 tablets will come to market in the near future. These will fill a gap in the Windows ecosystem and boost demand for Windows 8 by addressing key downsides to the early Surface tablets.


Windows tablet sales seemed to start off impressively, but the overall results so far are mediocre at best. Microsoft isn't sharing the numbers, but recent reports suggest that 1.5 million Surface tablets have sold, with 400,000 of them Surface Pro. The Surface Pro sold out almost instantly, but without actual sales data, it’s hard to know whether that’s impressive. Surface Pro was hot when it launched, but overall sales are disappointing.


Windows 8 tablet failings


If one thing has hampered the success of Windows 8 tablets, it's price. The Surface RT is an impressive piece of hardware and a worthy tablet competitor, but it costs the same $500 as the entry-level model of the extremely popular iPad—and nearly double the price of the Amazon Kindle Fire 8.9 HD. Starting at $900, the 10.6-inch Surface Pro is astronomical for a tablet. Even though it’s really a tablet-ultrabook hybrid of sorts, it is perceived as a tablet.


Another related handicap of Windows 8 tablets is size. Led by the original Amazon Kindle Fire and followed by the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Google Nexus and iPad Mini, the 7-inch tablet market has exploded. The fact that smaller tablets tend to cost about half as much as their larger counterparts has a lot to do with that.


Windows 8 backlash


Windows 8 has been blamed for a steep drop in PC sales, with the primary culprit being the missing Start button. However, recent PC sales data doesn’t include tablets—not even those like the Surface Pro, which is literally a PC running the full Windows 8 OS. IDC's latest research did not count anything with a fully detachable keyboard as a PC.

Contrast that with Microsoft's quarterly financial report this week, which shows Windows holding its own in spite of lagging Windows 8 demand. The upcoming Windows 8.1, codenamed “Windows Blue," will spark demand for Windows. A number of rumored, key updates and changes are based on leaked builds. For example, Windows Blue might boot straight to the more familiar Windows 7-esque desktop mode, and even return the Start button.

Smaller Windows 8 tablets


What will ignite sales of both Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 tablets? Smaller, more affordable Windows 8 tablets. A Windows 8 Pro tablet can replace a traditional desktop or laptop PC because it is, in fact, a full PC. Tablets running Windows RT, on the other hand, can arguably replace a traditional PC for many users, but they can’t run legacy Windows software. For those who aren’t looking to replace their PC, though, a smaller tablet makes much more sense.


The Surface Pro is only marginally smaller, thinner and lighter than most Windows notebooks or even ultrabooks. Businesses and consumers who have already invested in a Windows laptop gain little value from purchasing a Windows 8 tablet.


A 7-inch Windows 8 tablet in the $200 price range would change everything, driving adoption of Windows 8. It would fill a gap between smartphone and laptop, and provide the consistent Windows experience alongside tools like Microsoft Office. There's the rumored benefit that Windows Blue will automatically sync apps and settings between the desktop or laptop and the tablet. A stylus or digitizer would sweeten the deal.


"It's a (good) sign that the new Microsoft is aggressively and proactively going to play in every new hardware segment," says Onuora Amobi, chief editor of the WindowsBlue blog. "They'll stop to figure out if it's a good decision later. That's a good strategy."


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