Freshly launched editions of Microsoft's mainstays--the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity suite--helped the Redmond, Wash.
All the laptop and desktop models will come along with Office Home and Business 2013, Fujitsu's My Cloud hybrid cloud service, and options like gesture control.
On top of that, many of us have a desktop in the office and at another one at home.
The Latitude 10 is available with an optional productivity dock for in-office productivity with a traditional keyboard and mouse for desktop content creation activities.
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Mobile customers are typically out of the office, and looking for unique bits of information that desktop users ignore.
The company said that maps and applications that users create can be embedded in workflows so that content created by one user can easily be shared with others on smartphones, tablets, and notebooks as well as the traditional office desktop.
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The LIFEBOOK E752 desktop replacement notebook, designed for business professionals and office workers, offers a highly flexible platform that can be configured to meet diverse business needs.
Windows and Office are not really going to be threatened on that desktop by anything that we can see out there.
Mr Ozzie argues there is no demand for a fully featured web-based version, (though, it has to be said, the old desktop-bound Office is one of Microsoft's biggest money-makers and one of the main reasons for people to use Windows).
That doesn't include sales of its Office desktop software, which are lumped into the Business Division along with enterprise software, and swing with Windows.
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"Mac mini delivers the speed and expandability that makes it perfect for the desktop, living room or office, " said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
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The VIA ARTiGO A1150 is ideal for a variety of applications in the home or office, including home server, media streaming and surveillance applications or great as a regular desktop PC, using only a fraction of the physical real estate.
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And so, Microsoft's decision to keep the next version of Office on the desktop side of Windows says much about how it views the state of desktop versus Metro-style apps.
Although they do offer a traditional desktop mode, the only programs that can be run under it are Microsoft's Office 2013 suite and a limited number of the firm's other products.
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OnLive Desktop competes not only with the iPad's Office clones, but with iPad apps that let you remotely access and control your own PCs and Macs, and thus use Office and other computer software on those.
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