Wired's Review of the Microsoft Surface

Post by contextfree » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 6:05 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #43

NZ_Matt wrote: post #40

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Well the good news is that you are mistaken, Surface RT comes with both the desktop version of OneNote and OneNoteMX. http://office.microsoft.com/en-nz/home-and-student/office-ho...

The reviews I've seen say that there are far fewer features. If you've ever tried OneNote on Android you'd know that in the worst case this could be just turning it into a basic note-taking program. I want to be wrong, but nothing on the Microsoft site (or anywhere else I've seen) shows me a side-by-side compare of the features of OneNote for every platform and version. What I've read is that OneNote is available for…

Here's a list of the differences: http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/09/13/bui...

The main thing missing from OneNote is audio/video recording and searching, though you can insert audio/video files from elsewhere.

Post by pulplobster » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 8:05 PM UTC

ChrisLTD wrote: post #46

purplelobster wrote: post #17

I don't get the whole "not enough apps in the app store" critique. What are they expecting? The tablet is not even out yet and they expect a million apps or what? Obviously this is a problem with a new operating system... It's a valid critique in a way but there is nothing Microsoft can do short of hiring ten thousand developers to just make apps for it before launch.

If you're a prospective buyer, knowing the availability of popular software is valuable knowledge. I, for one, would not want to buy a $500+ tablet based on its potential for running good software.

Yes, but they're acting as if this is a permanent disadvantage of this device. And again, I think it's a bit harsh to judge before it's even been released. If there were like 10 apps I'd be worried, but there are around 5000 apps already, and Win 8 will be running on plenty of desktops and laptops as well as tablets, so I think this is not really a fair critique quite just yet.

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