Re: 2019.... bye bye Microsoft! LOL
Back in the day I used to run NT Workstation with an Exchange Server (5.5 I think) on my (work) Toshiba laptop. Very useful when supporting Exchange and also testing various bits of Outlook add on software.
Now my current Android tablet is very nice but it doesn't have the breadth or depth of software to do anything like that.
I bought it as a netbook replacement but it just doesn't cut it. Great for most things but not for serious email wrangling or Usenet. Word Processing sucks as well. We now have a small HP laptop to do these things. Came with Windows 8.1 and hasn't behaved badly enough to be Linuxed.
So tablets won't replace PCs until they can run full fat Linux or Windows and use the decades worth of mainstream software which is available to PCs.
At which point they will be just like a Surface Pro (with added Linux).
Many (most?) users will require a bit of heavy lifting at some point.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
