New Ecosystem
With the replacement of my once-great Samsung Stratosphere* with an HTC Windows Phone X, my business computing is now entirely under the Microsoft umbrella. Windows 7 at the office, Windows 8 at home (desktop and laptop), Surface RT for the tablet/netbook. Now if Redmond would only send me the shill checks they promised...
But seriously, this is the first time that I have had all my eggs in one basket - I would generally have one "odd man out" device, if not more. In fact, until recently, my standard trio for business trips was my iPad, my Windows 7/Ubuntu dual-boot netbook, and my Stratosphere. I'll be doing some posts on living in the MS world (like I haven't already...) and how it affects my work, leisure**, and other computing activities.
*more to come on this story - quick version is that Verizon took a great phone and completely ruined it with an OS update.
** My iPad needn't worry... there are enough iPad-only apps that I got used to using on that platform that I am not giving it up completely (although if they release The Simpson's Tapped Out on Windows 8 it could change things...)
But seriously, this is the first time that I have had all my eggs in one basket - I would generally have one "odd man out" device, if not more. In fact, until recently, my standard trio for business trips was my iPad, my Windows 7/Ubuntu dual-boot netbook, and my Stratosphere. I'll be doing some posts on living in the MS world (like I haven't already...) and how it affects my work, leisure**, and other computing activities.
*more to come on this story - quick version is that Verizon took a great phone and completely ruined it with an OS update.
** My iPad needn't worry... there are enough iPad-only apps that I got used to using on that platform that I am not giving it up completely (although if they release The Simpson's Tapped Out on Windows 8 it could change things...)
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