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riderz13371 on 12 July 2013

So pay 500$ to use Skype? Sounds great.



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OdinHades on 12 July 2013
Multimedialover said:
This is why Sony fans just will not understand in 3 years why Xbox One i outselling PS4. Because PS4 is just a games machine.

Xbox One with Kinect 2.0 is reaching far further than simple casual market. And if any company can capture the business market its Microsoft. They have a HUGE trust for business software.


Yeah.... no.



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sales2099 on 12 July 2013
riderz13371 said:
So pay 500$ to use Skype? Sounds great.

Business expenses can be a lot worse.



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Egann on 12 July 2013
thranx said:
Egann said:
This smells suspiciously like Julie Larson-Green running home to momma. She's worked in office products for years, and now she's going to make the One into an office product.


this is just the completion of a plan set out long ago. nothing suprising to me atleast. Its one of the reasons i first supported the xbox.  they are merely combing all their services and resources into ONE connected and complete box. Its on its way to usurp the PC, but more importanly it covers the market that appple has used to cut into MS. The people that want an easy to use device that they dont need to fiddle with but just works, and covers all the functionality of a pc with out the freedom. So hopefully windos will have the market of freedom with the pc, and the market of convienece with the xbox one. Same with windows 8, they have the new metro look and locked down system like apple and android, but also the freedom of their original OS with option for it. Not sure if they will allow a keyboard use for xbxo ONE, but if they do, you could use sky drives web based apps and the ONE would function as a word processor/excel device, a video conferencing device, browse the internet, watch multimedia, play videogames, etc.

You're probably right that this was intended all along, but all I can think of is my father--who worked in an office for thirty years using Windows--picking up an XBox controller at work. What is this I don't even.

Microsoft's office products have been going downhill for some time. The apex of usability in the Office Suite line was way back in 2000, when they introduced wizards to automate things like making a graph or a visual. That was actually a meaningful upgrade. Since then we've gotten crap like a tablet-tard UI with no comprehensible organization and .docx formats that only Suite 2007 or later recognizes. Because forcing your consumer to upgrade when you're not actually improving your product is kewl.

And then Windows 8 happened. It's like Microsoft can't put basic market research--the stuff any undergrad business student would do for free--into any of their products.



TimCliveroller on 12 July 2013
Egann said:
thranx said:
Egann said:
This smells suspiciously like Julie Larson-Green running home to momma. She's worked in office products for years, and now she's going to make the One into an office product.


this is just the completion of a plan set out long ago. nothing suprising to me atleast. Its one of the reasons i first supported the xbox.  they are merely combing all their services and resources into ONE connected and complete box. Its on its way to usurp the PC, but more importanly it covers the market that appple has used to cut into MS. The people that want an easy to use device that they dont need to fiddle with but just works, and covers all the functionality of a pc with out the freedom. So hopefully windos will have the market of freedom with the pc, and the market of convienece with the xbox one. Same with windows 8, they have the new metro look and locked down system like apple and android, but also the freedom of their original OS with option for it. Not sure if they will allow a keyboard use for xbxo ONE, but if they do, you could use sky drives web based apps and the ONE would function as a word processor/excel device, a video conferencing device, browse the internet, watch multimedia, play videogames, etc.

You're probably right that this was intended all along, but all I can think of is my father--who worked in an office for thirty years using Windows--picking up an XBox controller at work. What is this I don't even.

Microsoft's office products have been going downhill for some time. The apex of usability in the Office Suite line was way back in 2000, when they introduced wizards to automate things like making a graph or a visual. That was actually a meaningful upgrade. Since then we've gotten crap like a tablet-tard UI with no comprehensible organization and .docx formats that only Suite 2007 or later recognizes. Because forcing your consumer to upgrade when you're not actually improving your product is kewl.

And then Windows 8 happened. It's like Microsoft can't put basic market research--the stuff any undergrad business student would do for free--into any of their products.

picking up an XBox controller at work = "XBOX Skype" with voice



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Egann on 12 July 2013
TimCliveroller said:

picking up an XBox controller at work = "XBOX Skype" with voice

Because voice command software in a noisy office is functional and practical. There's a reason most Apple people only use Siri to show off.



thranx on 12 July 2013
Egann said:
TimCliveroller said:

picking up an XBox controller at work = "XBOX Skype" with voice

Because voice command software in a noisy office is functional and practical. There's a reason most Apple people only use Siri to show off.


Kinect does work pretty good in loud houses. Not sure about offices. And what the other guy said, there wouldn't be a need for an xbox controller in your hands. MS has done a good job with kinect and the mics, the noise cancelling, and the voice recognition.



endimion on 12 July 2013

well I don't see it an office

but in conference rooms

from experience it would be way better (with the right apps) for a lower price than most regular company conference rooms.... most of them just have voice conference device that are usually very expensive and require a phone line.... and you have paperboards that are unpractical.... and usually the old computer that didn't die yet hooked up to a video projector with no sound on a screen that got yellow over time....

here you need a TV a box and you are good to go for fullHD wide angle video conferences between the new York and LA office...

with office apps and SkyDrive you can do nice presentation just as before just better or differently than with that old clicker or yelling next to the intern....

I mean at that price with the right apps I don't see how anybody can argue it's a bad idea beside not understanding that a dedicated PC even aimed at gaming first couldn't be used for other things because it's cheap....

and the example of the 30 year business man is silly.... first he is closer to retirement than the young guy that just came in.... but on top of that I can extend that to pretty much any new tech.... 20 years ago internet didn't exist, lots of CRM software didn't exist either, 10 years ago smartphones didn't exist etc.... people have to adapt or they are out it's just a reality....

and office beside word maybe got way better with every iteration since I have been using it... excel has never been as deep and powerful as now.... powerpoint is just getting better and better, outlook also, access too, not sure about the rest but then again on a word processor you can only go so far....