Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Will Microsoft's Surface be the Tablet for Lawyers?

Though I'm a long-time Windows user, I've certainly done my best over the last couple of years to warm up to Apple's clearly superior mobile and tablet products.

To be sure, though,  I haven't quite succeeded.  Subconsciously, I keep asking myself the same nagging question: "Why can't I do all the stuff on my iPad that I've been doing for almost twenty years on my PC?

On this fundamental question, Microsoft's new Surface tablet could be a game-changer.

We'll see - but if, as promised, it actually will be able to seamlessly run all Windows-based software, I expect to be near the very front of a long line of lawyers clamoring to acquire this new, strangely innovative product that merely lets us do all the things we've always been able to do, the way we know how to do them.

One can only hope.

For more reading, see: Why Microsoft's Surface Tablet Shames the PC Industry

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net

2 comments:

  1. "Why can't I do all the stuff on my iPad that I've been doing for almost twenty years on my PC?"

    Because Microsoft doesn't publish Office for iOS and iPad doesn't support the BSOD. That being said, you could use Pages, Keynote and Numbers as many of our clients do.

    As for MS Surfaced, they just Zuned their so-called partners. Surface will be dead in less than two years and barely any OEMs will make MS-based tablets having been squeezed out by they "partner".

    ReplyDelete
  2. See also http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/20/pc_makers_hint_at_feelings_of_betrayal_over_microsofts_surface_tablet.html

    ReplyDelete

Readers are solely responsible for the content of the comments they post here. Comments are subject to the site's terms and conditions of use and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or approval of Wise Law Blog and the writers thereof. Readers whose comments violate the terms of use may have their comments removed without notification.