Dell is just another vendor that thinks MS will pull them all back up with them into a new Windows monopoly world, this time on PC, tablet and phone.

Maybe will happen, seems not so likely this time....

These guys just can't see anyway that MS could lose in a market they enter, just like they have never lost for almost the last 30 years.

Others in this delusion would be Nokia and former HP management (ditching their own better tablet OS).

Funny how MS and phone vendors etc go on about the need for a third ecosystem. But on the desktop lots of people claim there is only room for 2 ecosystems, and no room for Linux.

The two major disadvantages of all Optical processing in the past were:

1/ The Wavelength of light is much larger than the structures used in modern day chips. So the optical circuity wouldn't be as dense as modern day electronics.

2/ When you turn off an optical signal it gets turned into heat (i.e the transistor goes black) not true in electronics as there is no electrical flow when the transistor is off. This causes a theoretical optical devices run hotter than electronic ones and therefore hurting density yet again.

Optics and optical processing have there place (especially processing communications data) but for high density processing these two problematic are very problematic.

.... *(mouse, keyboard and large HDMI LCD panel for your room not included)

There is no UK IPTV provider that does good on-demand (Netflix level) but crucially live HD channels.

If you want a large number of HD channels and off the cable networks you are stuck giving Rupert Murdoch your money.

Give me live HD on broadband, I'll sign up tomorrow and start using more of my 40Mb pipe.

"Mac users love macs. Android users love android. Linux users love Linux. Windows users? They only love the promise of the cold comfort of the grave and the release from their hellish lives it will bring."

Love this.....

Yeah I keep hearing this spin. We are a BES user and all our BB's were all down for 2 days and some were down for all 3 days!

And have more experience in playing the system? Are Google too naive in this area?

I'd have thought things like a tool that can read Visio files would be on that list ?

I totally agree, it would be nice if there was somewhere that could provide a comparison of the different open source Groupware solutions. I in fact, think there is too many groupware projects, so the effort is too diffuse.

I always hoped that Postpath would get open sourced, doesn't look likely now that Cisco have bought them. But it can do one thing none of these can (that I know of), it can pretend to be an Exchange server. This makes migration so much easier for companies migrating (that have lots of Exchange servers).

Our senior exec all carry iPads now.Many have ditched their laptops and just travel with iPads.

All the issues you mention matter to IT. But senior execs want iPad's and it's up to IT to get them into compliance (remote wipe etc).
This is being driven (I guess in most companies) from above (the top) so IT objections have a limited effect.

It does look like a big problem in the Enterprise for MS. I don't think Windows tablets will fly as a replacement.

The whole presentation fails to grasp MS's own original enterprise strategy, this was that you sold to senior execs and IT had to implement (often against their better judgement). This looks like trying to sell to IT, sorry but the iPad has been sold to senior execs and IT will have to implement (against their better judgement, like MS used to do.