The Macalope Weekly: Remember Microsoft?

14.05.2011

While Schumer’s point about the checkpoint-evasion app was a valid criticism it was also entirely off-topic. , U.S. Senators don’t have the courtesy to stick to simple Internet forum guidelines. Which isn’t surprising. It’s even worse in the House of Representatives. It’s like YouTube comments over there.

IDG News Service’s Agam Shah says .

Well, the Macalope’s cynicism about corporate IT buying decisions is , but give them credit. After years of Microsoft trying to shove Windows-based tablets down their throats, at lot of them recognized what they really wanted all along when it finally showed up, even though it had an Apple logo on it.

Apple’s iPad is the poster child, but Intel’s Oak Trail processor could bring a new wave of tablets that are more closely aligned to security, software and hardware needs in enterprises, analysts said.