I like my iPad but it does have its limitations. I still like my Windows desktop PC with its
full featured operating system, applications, peripherals, and hardware. The iPad has a long way to go to fully
replace the desktop PC. My iPad hasn’t
replaced my PC experience, it has supplemented it. Microsoft has nothing to worry about in
losing me as a customer any time soon.
But according to an article
in CRN Microsoft is worried that I will virtually login to my desktop PC at
work and somehow they will be losing money.
Microsoft feels that since I will be getting the “Windows PC experience”
on a device with a non-Microsoft operating system they have lost money. Microsoft believes that anything with an
operating system that isn’t sold by them is a lost sale. Starting with Windows 8 Microsoft will be
charging corporate users extra for logging into their work PC’s with their
non-Windows devices. They will not be
charging corporate customers to login to their PC’s if they are using a Windows
8 tablet though.
