About 20 years ago IBM decided to stop recommending IBM products as a solution for everything. The transition worked well for them.
The app for Office is not available for the Samsung Galaxy Note. It is for other android devices. I bought thru my company Office 365 for $30 for a cd and electronic download.
No $99 a year rent either.
All very well, but lots of us still use notebooks and keyboards. And the “modern” UI is ugly as hell on any kind of decent-sized screen.
Plenty of people told them that, and they refused to listen. I always like to work with the latest software, but Windows 8.1 is just too ugly and clunky to deal with.
It would have been perfectly easy for them to provide a second interface. But they were just too damned smug and full of themselves to do it.
More like giving their OS away
I think Microsoft is starting to enter a moribund cycle, where it offers more high cost, high margin things to a smaller group of customers.
The alternative to this, that they just can’t wrap their minds around, is the creation of hardware, not just software.
They could easily buy up a bunch of the hardware movers and shakers, and consolidate them in a subsidiary company that would create technology for use far down the road. Somewhat like Bell Labs used to do for AT&T, though AT&T never exploited what they invented as well as they could have.
For example, what if this hardware company made humanoid robots, with all the underlying software unique to Microsoft? Don’t think entirely self contained, but using an internal “primitive brain”, a very powerful local computer as a WiFi “mid-brain”, and a supercomputer as a “higher brain”.
Every robot they made would contribute to the learning of all robots. Proprietary knowledge owned by Microsoft.
So in other words if you hate WINDERS 8 then you’ll really hate all future Desktop and laptops OS. These Twits ignore a significant market that can’t/doesn’t use Tablets does not have high speed internet at home and therefore their PITA you can not shut it down “CLOUD” makes using the computer a real pain. Good move MicroCrap. I hope another affordable user friendly company fill their void. I just bought my last WINDERS OS with WINDERS 8.