Huge Pent Up Demand for Windows 8 Tablets

As many as 200 million IT workers may be holding out for the right Windows 8 tablet, Forrester says.

Market research firm Forrester polled nearly 10,000 IT workers, and out of those surveyed, more showed an interest in a Windows 8 tablet than an iPad, ReadWrite.com reports. Only 2 percent said they already own a Windows 8 tablet, but 32 percent said they wanted one. As for the iPad, 26 percent polled said they'd like to own one (and 12 percent pointed to Android).

How Forrester made the leap to 200 million IT workers wanting a Windows 8 tablet, we're not really sure.

Survey Suggest Huge Pent Up Demand for Windows 8 Tablets | Maximum PC

Bill can finally relax.

 

[BillWindows]

I am waiting too. For a 7" x86 version for $200 - with GPS, SD card slot and 10 hour battery life.

I have to wonder what it'd be like to use Windows on a 7 inch screen. Seems a tad too small... But could be possible...

Ray8 would get one if it had dual screens.

 

[Ray8]

HAHA! Just goes to show that evangelists will say ANYTHING that borderlines paranoia to beat up any remote growth of Windows 8 and tablet PCs!

Lots of IT people want a Windows tablet? What?! Preposterous! They were paid by Microsoft! No one can like Windows 8! It's awful! It's full of advertisements! I don't like it and no one likes it and that's that!

Geez....

Fixed!

 

[Ray8]

I have to wonder what it'd be like to use Windows on a 7 inch screen. Seems a tad too small... But could be possible...

Bill should tell us, he probably has half a dozen lying around somewhere.

 

[SIW2]

I don't think there is much doubt that there is a market for the paving slabs.

There is a market for almost anything.

We shall see if it is a niche - or if hundreds of millions are gagging to trade in their dedicated devices for one of those things.

You never know - some very strange things happen.

 

[Coke Robot]

I don't think there is much doubt that there is a market for the paving slabs.

There is a market for almost anything.

We shall see if it is a niche - or if hundreds of millions are gagging to trade in their dedicated devices for one of those things.

Millions of people already gagged to replace their desktop with a laptop and don't look back.

 

[whs]

I am waiting too. For a 7" x86 version for $200 - with GPS, SD card slot and 10 hour battery life.

I have to wonder what it'd be like to use Windows on a 7 inch screen. Seems a tad too small... But could be possible...

Works very well with Android.

 

[Coke Robot]

I am waiting too. For a 7" x86 version for $200 - with GPS, SD card slot and 10 hour battery life.

I have to wonder what it'd be like to use Windows on a 7 inch screen. Seems a tad too small... But could be possible...

Works very well with Android.

android's one thing, it's a smartphone OS on a larger screen. Windows, or even RT, on the other hand are not smartphone OS's. Windows Phone could work on that, but then that would defeat the idea for SO many things and would just be another phablet platform out there that doesn't offer anything more or less (maybe except for Office Mobile) than ios or android.

 

[Ray8]

My Windows CE device has a 7" screen and it's actually quite functional for navigation, making Bluetooth phone calls, watching DVDs, listening to music etc.

 

[SIW2]

Seems 7 in and low pricing is where things are going.

Not something that win8 stuff would seem to lend itself to.

In addition to that $60 thing that you found Wolfie, I have a suspicion google may go under $100 soon with some sort of nexus type object.

I am waiting too. For a 7" x86 version for $200 - with GPS, SD card slot and 10 hour battery life.

 

[Coke Robot]

My Windows CE device has a 7" screen and it's actually quite functional for navigation, making Bluetooth phone calls, watching DVDs, listening to music etc.

Can you run Office on it though? The thing is, a 7 inch tablet would be a Windows RT tablet with Office 2013. Can that be functional with touch? That's my concern. Along with UI sizing and resizing of UI elements...

 

[Ray8]

My Windows CE device has a 7" screen and it's actually quite functional for navigation, making Bluetooth phone calls, watching DVDs, listening to music etc.

Can you run Office on it though? The thing is, a 7 inch tablet would be a Windows RT tablet with Office 2013. Can that be functional with touch? That's my concern. Along with UI sizing and resizing of UI elements...

Of course a Windows 7" tablet would be almost solely an RT device, you couldn't get even an Arm processor in a tablet that size and expect to have a decent battery life. But then if such a tablet couldn't survive in a 7" form-factor, how can the current RT tablet and Windows phone survive in their form-factors?

 

[whs]

Seems 7 in and low pricing is where things are going.

Not something that win8 stuff would seem to lend itself to.

In addition to that $60 thing that you found Wolfie, I have a suspicion google may go under $100 soon with some sort of nexus type object.

I am waiting too. For a 7" x86 version for $200 - with GPS, SD card slot and 10 hour battery life.

Right, I read somewhere that Google plans to come out with a stripped down 7" Nexus - no price was mentioned. As far as I am concerned, 7" is ideal. Who wants to lug around a 10 or 12" tablet. And as a laptop replacement, those tablets are too expensive.

 

[SIW2]

those tablets are too expensive

Yes, but that is just one issue.

Dell seem to have an attempt at something around the $500 mark. No idea what it is like.

Unless it is made from el cheapo components, you rather wonder how they can do that.

Perhaps they get some financial help.

 

[Ruudfood]

Too many people focusing on the number in that article. What's important is that it's not surprising there are IT professionals who are interested in Windows 8 tablets. It doesn't mention the Surface Pro specifically (and I do wonder what's taking the OEMs so long to get ranges of tablets on the market).

iPads in particular are all very well for the guys in sales and marketing but for real productivity Microsoft is where it's at.