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elgrantrolo writes:
With the iPad likely to be a top selling PC these days, this distinction in the computing world is likely to become less important, even more now that Microsoft announced the release of MS Office apps for Android phones and for the iPad. Some strings are attached to the Office365 SaaS, but overall, it looks like a significant step for Microsoft to be less reliant on the Windows OS.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @02:56PM
"Microsoft bet their biggest chip (Windows) on the idea that people wanted a consistent experience between mobile and desktop."
Reading "Almost Perfect" last night
Wordperfect made the same mistake creating the Windows and Mac versions assuming users wanted a UI that was the same as the DOS version.
New platforms play by different rules.
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @06:43PM
WordPerfect's problem was that they trusted M$.
When Redmond said **These are the APIs we will be including in Windoze 95**, WordPerfect took them at their word and built their product using those.
M$, knowing better, built their competing product using the APIs that were *actually* to be included in their new OS.
Unfortunately, years later when they finally got got their day in court, "justice" said that what M$ did was perfectly OK.
Surprise! Hey, this is 21st century Amerika after all.
-- gewg_