[dba-SQLServer] SSMS for 2012 Express

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Martin Reid <mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk> wrote:

> I am using it on a Surface and I think it's great. Once you get the hang
> of the tiles and the short cuts the Surface beats the Ipad hands down for
> all things Microsoft etc. Remote desktop works great and for me who lives
> in a Microsoft Word it's a great tool.


wait lets not go crazy!.. I have a surface pro tablet here at work, and
while the i5 processor makes the device zippy, the usability on a tablet
screen makes it a non-starter for me and my colleagues.  trying to use the
desktop with simply just touch is horrible, I think that it is convenient
that you can run native windows apps on a smaller form factor, but really
it's not that small.  for a tablet it's huge, and they onscreen keyboard is
ok, but really you sort of really need the attachment keyboard, and for
that matter if you want to use business apps like excel, then you really
need the stylus, which now just gets awkward... so we went with adding a
keyboard and mouse, now you have a semi laptop.  match that up with a
horrible battery life and the device sucks. you have to make it to a power
source every few hours. our typically only runs for about 3-4 hours.  When
I tweaked it sleeping sooner, it was able to last longer but it still was
not able to use it as a replacement tablet device. in fact it seems that
for us here at the office if we need a good portable ultra laptop, it's
better to go with the ultralaptop instead of the surface.

for us here at the office the surface was a neat "ooh and aah" device for
the execs to look at.  once they used it they found that it was not as
convenient as an iPad.

we have different types of users, so our office users that "could" use a
tablet, end up opting for an iPad for portability and battery longevity,
and convenience (our mobile solutions have become almost exclusively iOS).
our assemblers do not require surface pro devices and our machinist, work
in an environment that is not good for a device that requires to be
vented.  add to that, that we have a license with apple to build our own
in-house apps and have been doing so for almost 2 years now, and each iPad
app that interfaces to our enterprise products are designed with simplicity
in mind, and people naturally gravitate to a device where an operation is 1
or 2 taps vs 40. (yes that many).

(sorry for the long winded post)
-Francisco <http://twitter.com/seecoolguy>