Bill Gates calls iPad users 'frustrated' - NU.nl

Microsoft founder Bill Gates thinks that many iPad owners bales that the device has no keyboard and create.

no possibility via Office documents

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That said Gates in an interview with the U.S. broadcaster CNBC.

The Microsoft founder the market for PCs is growing and is making.

increasingly difficult distinction between tablets and PCs

Microsoft wants according to Gates are part of that part of the market, which is now ‘dominated by the ipad and derivatives thereof. “

No

Office

“Many of those users are frustrated, they can not type or create documents, Office they have not at hand,” said Gates. Microsoft would just better serve consumers with Windows 8 and its Surface tablet according to Gates that a lot. A version of Microsoft Office for iOS and Android is already underway for a while, but it will probably only appear on the market in 2014.

Gates acknowledges that the iPad is a great product but says customers has produced a device and operating system that does more to offer what they would expect. a PC Nutech recently put the number of iPads sold over the years in a row.

Four percent

Windows 8 now, half a year after its introduction, a market share of around 4 percent in the PC market. That was earlier this month.

end of April, a market researcher that more than 7 percent of the tablet is one of Microsoft’s operating system. reported This is partly for the Microsoft Surface tablet itself (review) and partly to Windows tablets from other manufacturers.

By: Nutech / Floris Port