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Thread ID: 136429 2014-02-27 02:22:00 Windows licensing costs in a race to the bottom of the barrel. Webdevguy (17166) PC World Chat
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1368942 2014-03-04 06:14:00 My work phone is a Nokia flip phone that I make and receive calls on - several years old and perfect for the task :)
I do carry my personal smartphone around though and find quite a lot of work related uses for it such as;
Navigating to sites I'm not familiar with
Taking photos of work sites for later reference - saves taking a camera and does a great job
I work at a desk but some of our field staff timesheet on their phones - no app just a website
It can load and read our task handbooks and equipment manuals - better suited to a tablet though with a decent screen
And I have google handy at all times for whatever.

Just a few tasks but useful and all default features of the phone without any special apps.
Still I don't believe desktops and laptops are dead and won't be for the foreseeable future, so I think MS need to try to keep their market share if they want to stay profitable.
If that means trying to match prices with the competition or experimenting with a free version of windows then it's a win for us consumers in my opinion. 		dugimodo (138)
1368943 2014-03-04 09:30:00 My work phone is a Nokia flip phone that I make and receive calls on - several years old and perfect for the task :)
I do carry my personal smartphone around though and find quite a lot of work related uses for it such as;
Navigating to sites I'm not familiar with
Taking photos of work sites for later reference - saves taking a camera and does a great job
I work at a desk but some of our field staff timesheet on their phones - no app just a website
It can load and read our task handbooks and equipment manuals - better suited to a tablet though with a decent screen
And I have google handy at all times for whatever.

Just a few tasks but useful and all default features of the phone without any special apps.
Still I don't believe desktops and laptops are dead and won't be for the foreseeable future, so I think MS need to try to keep their market share if they want to stay profitable.
If that means trying to match prices with the competition or experimenting with a free version of windows then it's a win for us consumers in my opinion.

Agreed, it is definitely a win for the consumer although not a win for Microsoft's bottom line. Also desktops are not dead, they will just be relagated to more back office and heavy lifting.

As to MS keeping their share of the market, I'm not sure how they are going to do that if Apple and Google have the market share of hand helds between them and the market share for desktop PCs is declining at about 13% per year. 		Webdevguy (17166)
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