The desktop isn’t going anywhere really, it's just evolving. What will probably fade out (except for high-end needs) is the dedicated non-mobile desktop pc. I can easily see were your tablet\phone\whatever has enough processing and graphic power to be sitting in a dock in the office, with full keyboard and mouse support, and then is lifted out and taken with you on the go. There will always be room for the places that have users that do not need this (Call centers, retail, etc) so it never will truly die out.
-Greg -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Death of the Desktops? Spreadsheets creation and data entry, page layout, photo processing, writing, presentation creation - those and more are far more difficult on anything without a keyboard and mouse. Kurt On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Rankin, James R <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you imagine writing technical documents or doing CAD on a tablet? > Sure the percentages may change, but the desktop will not go away anytime > soon. > It might run on a thin client, but there's still a place for a desktop > - even if virtual. > > Pundits have been predicting things like "the death of Citrix" and > "the year of the Linux desktop" for a long while. I haven't noticed > either of them happening. > > YMMV, IMO, etc. > ---Blackberried > ________________________________ > From: Roger Wright <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:40:41 -0400 > To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> > ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Death of the Desktops? > > There are a number of pundits pushing the notion that desktop > computing is facing certain death, and especially for desktop > computers as we've known them up to now. Indeed, there are more > portable offerings available than desktop machine options, but with a higher > price/performance/feature ratio. > I'm not sure I buy it, especially for many business environments where > access to legacy apps is critical. But it does give me something to > consider as we face our annual equipment refresh cycle. > > What are your thoughts? > > > Roger Wright > ___ > > If I could choose any way to destroy the world, I'd delete Google. > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
