how easy is it to browse a network and copy files across that network to your iPad? how is registry access not an advantage over your iPad? say you plug in a removable harddrive and want to partition it? say you want to read the error logs? say you want to create a relatively complex scheduled task?
most people won't touch these things i know... but i likely will.
whoa, whoa, whoa... c'mon. registry access? really? you think people might actually want this?
OK, if these things are important to you, then I guess that's fine - MS has got your back. But you can't tell me that these are usage scenarios that make the device better for the vast, vast majority of people. And MS is going for mass population acceptance, not a niche crowd of system admins who need to edit the registry, partition hard drives or read error logs on a frequent basis.
... I'll give you network access and file copying. I've gotten apps like Dropbox and goodreader to help transfer files over to the iPad. so I figure some more people might appreciate that being built in. Although, even then, I've only needed to use those apps a dozen times or so each year.
have fun using microsoft office on the ipad.
I was responding to a comment about how Surface can perform light productivity usage and the iPad straight up can't. The iPad can. It can't run desktop Office and I'm fine with that but it has plenty of document editing apps that run just fine and don't force the user to switch to a whole new UI to use them.
