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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Skepticism mounts over Windows RT's enterprise role

 Omissions from the feature set of Windows RT are making analysts increasingly skeptical that enterprises will gravitate toward tablets running the new forked version of Windows.
Earlier this week, Microsoft confirmed that Windows RT, the operating system designed to run on battery-saving devices powered by ARM system-on-a-chip (SoC) silicon, will not include a pair of features critical to enterprises: Connectivity to a company's network, dubbed "domain joining," and support for Group Policies, a mechanism that enterprise IT administrators use to micro-manage machines.
Prior to this week, Microsoft had called the operating system "Windows on ARM," or WOA for short.  By

Skepticism mounts over Windows RT's enterprise role - Computerworld

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