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I see opportunity here for someone to make a "Business OS." Microsoft has forgotten who pays their bills. Business users do not want all this crap.

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I work in financial services and there's been a mad rush to build iPad apps. I think this will be very well received.

7:36PM Is Microsoft worried that enterprise users may see this and think it's too consumer-focused?

Not really -- employees are consumers too, and the lines have blurred somewhat. That has definitely been a recurring theme throughout D9, starting with Eric Schmidt's line that traditional IT is dead.

I agree, it's the long game that Apple has been playing... when all campus graduates have pretty much used Macs, and they use Macs at home, they start clamoring for them in the office too. I'm fairly sure I saw numbers indicating Macs making headway in enterprise.

Consumer != powerless.

Excel shown for 30 seconds in this video is the elephant in the room.

Touch-first OS with Excel? I'd like to see that done right.

MS will probably announce a business (or "Executive") version later.

Isn't that Chrome OS? Just enough OS to get your employees on to the websites that they use to do their job. (Only applicable for certain types of jobs, though)

While much of vender software has migrated to the web, purpose-built IT is still heavily reliant in old applications that date back decades.

Even something as simple as a time management system may take several years and tons of money to transition from decade-old WinForms app to new web app.

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