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I'm in the same situation: been told I can get a new laptop, and would love a convertible of some sort (or even one of the "full on" W8 tablets - I've got a Bluetooth keyboard) but there's no way the school would stretch to that sort of price.Quote:
Originally Posted by gshaw
Most OEMs have been waiting until CES to announce/release products which is unfortunately timed to be after Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by gshaw
Microsoft aren't preventing businesses using them, although RT devices are primarily aimed at consumers. Why would they sell an optional commercial use license for Office Home & Student 2013 RT? They can also be managed to a certain extent via Windows InTune.Quote:
Originally Posted by gshaw
http://i.imgur.com/gH6Pe.png
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Not if you want the full powered MS Office experience rather than cut-down Google Apps - not everyone wants 100% cloud and Google in charge of their data. Microsoft has a better blend of internal \ cloud that you can choose how far you want to go, rather than Google's "you're in or you're out" stance.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberNerd
Why would I want to be forced to use a cut down web-based management product if I've invested in the all-encompassing SCCM infrastructure for everything else? Why would I want to be restricted to what policies I can apply when I have powerful GPO control for the rest of my network? As it stands the device is a 2nd class citizen in terms of the rest of the Microsoft product range and it really doesn't need to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthur
Interestingly in the graphic posted above I thought SCCM 2012 could manage Android devices and didn't need InTune or has that changed?
You have to have a full sharepoint setup and Office licenses everywhere for that to be effective. That's extraordinarily expensive for schools to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by gshaw
You definitely need InTune to manage Android devices.Quote:
Originally Posted by gshaw
EES = Office installed locally everywhereQuote:
Originally Posted by CyberNerd
EES = Office 365 everywhere, free with EES for the standard package
Wouldn't bother running an internal SharePoint now for most reasonably sized organisations as the 365 version would do the trick for student \ staff collaboration. File storage however can go wherever you prefer it to be and doesn't have to be all-or-nothing i.e. put your file shares where you want and use as much \ little of the cloud service to suit your needs.
Cost = same as what you pay for Office anyway (unless you've junked it completely for Google Apps, not many people gone down that road yet as far as I know)
The problem with not using sharepoint and using Office 365 is that you get all of the disadvantages of office 365 - yet none of the advantages of sharepoint. All of your documents are in MS cloud and you end up needing to pay for the A3 plan to get the full advantage of being able to use any of the advanced features which MS inconveniently left out of the Office 365 web application. We costed that at £40,000 per year . Compare to Google Docs you get automatic sync of MSOffice files, Google drive to sync mapped homedrives plus the collaborative tools - so you can still have EES AND Google docs and have both benefits, plus you get Android and chromebook devices at a fraction of the cost.Quote:
Originally Posted by gshaw
Which ones did you find to be the deal breakers that aren't in there? On the hardware side again you prove the point at the top of the page that the MS devices are just too pricey for what they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberNerd
Collaboration vs Google DocsQuote:
Originally Posted by gshaw
Microsoft: 60 million Windows 8 licenses sold to date « ZDNet
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Microsoft officials said the company has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to date.
Tami Reller, Chief Financial and Chief Marketing Officer for Windows shared the data at the JP Morgan Tech Forum at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 8.
That 60 million figure includes "sell in to OEMs for new PCs" and upgrades, said Reller. She didn't explicitly cite whether the figure also includes any Enterprise Agreement/volume license sales.
"Windows 8 is a big, ambitious change," Reller acknowledged. She reiterated that Windows 8 sales are roughly in line with Windows 7 sales.
Microsoft said the company had sold 40 million licenses of Windows 8 as of the end of November.
Reller said the sales are "roughly in line with where we would have been with Windows 7."
NPD has cited that retail demand for Windows 8 was off through the end of 2012.
In part, Windows 8's less-than-stellar retail sales can be attributed to the lack of touch-enabled laptops and tablets running the operating system. At CES this week, a number of Microsoft's PC-maker partners have announced new touch-screen Windows 8 and Windows RT hardware, but a number of these still won't be available for months.
A more independent view on those sales figures: Microsoft pats self on back over Windows 8 sales ? The Register
And something on the future of MS: 'Not even Santa could save Microsoft's Windows 8' ? The Register
They have sold 60 million copies because you cannot buy windows 7 machines any more in stores.
Its nice having a monopoly sometimes :)
only if you can play as the bootQuote:
Originally Posted by zag
How many of the 60 million are corporate licences? We'll be buying into to EES next month, does that count even though we're using the licenses to downgrade to Win7?Quote:
Originally Posted by zag
Yep that counts. As does OEM licences for devices that haven't even been built yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmcd35
Licences sold is not a good measure of success. It vastly over inflates the success when compared to actual installs.