Originally Posted by
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RE: Microsoft Surface Tablets.
Can we start an APC petition to save management from making a huge mistake?
Is there nobody in Delta's IT department with a clue?
Windows 8 sucks. The Surface sucks.
Its not too late.
I know management is wedded to Microsoft but they need to face reality.
The writing is on the wall. Microsoft tablets are like the Sony Betamax VCRs.
Would it be possible to organize an "intervention"?
Dude...you're talking about a management team that thinks you can replace a 767/757 with a stretched 737, do you really think you can talk any sense into them on tablets? Is there any wonder why they think a Surface is an iPad? The fact is, the Surface is FREE! They need what, about 40,000 of them?
Let me do the math...40,000 free Microsoft Tablets, vs. 40,000 iPads at $600 each.
Free...or $24 Million.
Hmmm....I wonder which one they'll choose.
Oh, and if we eat some of those surplus Surface tablets, we also get Microsoft as our biggest corporate client.
Small price to pay for the company, and we will benefit as well, as they are already adding more international flying to SEA, just to serve Microsoft. Maybe that's what the widebody order is for? More flying out of SEA?
So...your chances of ever seeing anything but a Microsoft product in our cockpits, are about as good as ever seeing an A380 in Delta colors.
If they would allow us to use our own personal iPads instead of the Surface, we could at least write them off as a job related expense, like your hat and sunglasses.