Office Applications on Mobile Devices

This is not an easy question. My brother thinks that Windows is going to be fading fast while Android and Apple continue to grow. I think Windows will be around the office for the rest of our working lives.

In the meantime, mobile devices and their apps will become essential business machines. Microsoft is having a hard time getting market share with mobile devices. They will be attempting to put Windows 8 on Windows phones, with light versions of Office soon after. I am not excited about any phone apps that try to compete with Microsoft Office.  I just downloaded an app that reads the documents.

AT&T and Verizon have the most phone choices. Sprint unlimited plans are more unlimited.

Here are some fault lines where earthquakes will appear. Intel/AMD processors in PCs use 10 times the energy of the Arm processors used in phones and tablets. Laptops need recharging after a couple of hours, smart phones may last all day, dumb cell phones a few days.

I have Windows 8 beta version on one of my computers. I had to retrain myself considerably to use it. I can do almost everything I can do with Windows 7, but some applications won’t install on it, most notably my Hewlett Packard scanner applications. For a mobile device, reviewers are being kind to Windows 8 as a way to access phone apps. For a desktop computer, I see no real advantage.

I also have a version of Linux on my Android phone. I had hopes that my phone would become my daily desktop. After a month fooling around with it, I have pretty much given up on it. The two major problems are that Bluetooth keyboard combinations like Ctrl-C don’t get through to it, and it cannot see anything coming from any device that wants to connect to it with a USB connection, like a flash key. The Arm processor is fast enough. The single gigabyte of high speed ram is more of a limitation.

There are tablets that have both Arm and Intel processors. They need to be charged often. Nobody likes them.

The agency was Premier Staffing

The agency was Premier Staffing. The two presenters at Experience Unlimited San Francisco were a practiced team, with a Power Point presentation. The woman was Brooke Simon, and the man was AJ Mizes.

Premier has a busy lobby with a busy receptionist. It is on Sutter at Mongomery Street on the fifth floor. The recruiter who had time to talk to me was Zack Sutter. He was wearing a plain white T-shirt, but a rather expensive one. 

The job I applied for was a Backend PHP/MySQL developer. My one page resume was very responsive, but it turned out he was supposed to steal someone already working at a somewhat more developed start-up. I'm supposed to send him a resume going back beyond the last twelve years, which will be hard to do without raising distracting culture issues.