Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Microsoft's Killer Tablet Opportunity

Posted by samzenpus on from the claiming-the-prize dept.

snydeq writes "Advice Line's Bob Lewis sees ripe opportunity for Microsoft in the tablet market: Forget about outdoing Apple's iPad and give us the features that finally improve the way we work. 'The game isn't beating Apple at its own game. The magic buzzword is to "differentiate" and show what your technology will do that Apple won't even care about, let alone beat you at. One possible answer: Help individual employees be more effective at their jobs,' Lewis writes, outlining four business features to target, not the least of which would be to provide UI variance, enabling serious tablet users to expose the OS complexity necessary to do real work."

2 of 282 comments (clear)

  1. VMware's got an app for that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Vmware's got an app for that: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vmware-view-for-ipad/id417993697?mt=8

  2. They already did that... by majesticmerc · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft already had a tablet that would make employees potentially much more productive. It was called Courier, the internet was crying out for them to make it, and they cancelled the whole project.