Windows 8:一款难当重任的操作系统?_BEC初级作文

Windows 8:一款难当重任的操作系统?

企业采购Windows设备的花费仍然远高于iPad，不过iPad的使用正在快速增长。据Forrester估计，今年企业iPad支出总额将接近100亿美元，较2011年增长76%，而Windows电脑支出总额预计将为1,240亿美元，下降3%。

Microsoft and PC makers that are developing tablets to work with its new software say they offer a key advantage: the ability to run popular business software such as Microsoft's Word and Excel. Microsoft also says its software is better at letting technology managers electronically send new software applications to hundreds of Windows computers, or wipe corporate data from a lost or stolen tablet.

微软和开发Windows 8平板电脑的PC制造商说，Windows 8有一个至关重要的优势：它可以运行微软Word和Excel等流行企业软件。微软还说，Windows 8还使技术管理人员能够更加方便地通过网络将新的软件应用发送到数百台Windows电脑上，或从丢失、被盗的平板电脑中擦除公司数据。

'It's the tablet enterprise customers have been waiting for,' said Mr. Visser of Microsoft.

微软的维瑟说，这是企业客户一直在等待的平板电脑。

There is pressure for companies to shift from Windows XP, since Microsoft plans to end extended support for the software in April 2017. Yet Barclays Capital, in surveys of corporate chief information officers, says it has found more desire for customers to upgrade to Windows 7 rather than Windows 8 over the next year.