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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5754821" data-attributes="member: 7883">I 100% agree with you on several of your points here.  Regardless of whether they market themselves as suited for the space or not, neither iOS or Android are really suitable for corporate environments.  RiM's products are...but they're having major problems with deployment at the moment.Most of my associates in IT departments dread the inevitable requests to deploy iPhones for staff, because of the lack of corporate control, and insecurity of the platforms as compared to ones like Blackberry that are more secure but "less fun".  But Apple's done a masterful job of creating the "I want" attitude...and few people want to carry two phones, so the "I want" product, which tends to be either an iOS or Android phone or tablet, is what the IT departments get pressured into deploying, no matter how incompatible they are with internal security policies.  Most of these guys will have an Android or iOS tablet for fun.....but they refuse to use them for work.Windows 8 could be great.....and I'll keep an open mind.  At the moment, I really need to replace my laptop, but I don't want to do that right before an OS transition, because it's never as nice to have an upgrade capable machine as it is to have one built and optimized from the ground up for an OS.I'd be a lot happier with some of the evolutions of MS products if they'd stop making so many features US-only.  As it stands, Media Centre is a glorified MP3 player for me, as the majority of cool stuff about it is turned off in Canada.  I went to the extent of getting the better versions of Win7, not realizing that some of those features actually don't even work in my country.  I loath regional restrictions.Windows Phone 7 (Mango) is a lot better than it started.....but admittedly that feeling is just from reading reviews etc.  I don't know anyone who owns one, they weren't really there when I last changed phones.  There are no decent Windows tablets now, so I went Android.  Given how long contracts are in Canada, we'll likely be on Windows Phone 9, and Android Key Lime Pie or something before I'm eligible to change <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Not sure why you're not a fan of Firefox.....but then, I'm in web development, and many of us (at least among all the developers I work with) loathe IE.  Though Mozilla's decision to remove the lock symbol that appears when someone's on a secure page is something that has caused recent headaches.Banshee</blockquote>

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