British bank Barclays has bought 8500 iPad to improve customer service

Bank of UK Barclays Bank, one of the largest in the UK and the world of financial conglomerates, has purchased more than 8,500 iPad tablets for their employees. Using these high-tech devices, the company expects to more productively interact with customers better service.

 

This news may be a big surprise to Microsoft, which on October 26 began selling its own tablet, managed by the operating system Windows RT.

We looked at several options in the marketplace, plates and concluded that the iPad - the best solution to meet the specific needs of employees in the banking sector. We intend to distribute the device in several branches of Barclays in the UK, - said the representative of Barclays.

Despite the best efforts of Microsoft to make their own decisions in the attractive business environment, companies are mostly purchased iPad. And only a few prefer tablets to Windows. One such company was the international airline Emirates, which recently bought 1,000 such devices from HP for use on board their aircraft.

 

Barclays plans to upload to a special set of iPad applications Mortgage Brain, by which brokers can view the options available in the market in real time. What models of Apple-plates were chosen for corporate purchases of British bank is not specified.

Windows XP clients are not fascinated by Windows 8

In this week we have repeatedly touches on, Windows 8 is trying to make his way through what has been the best-selling operating system Windows XP and the currently most used and liked by the masses, Windows 7. Leaving aside the issues relating to sales and the aspect of functionality with interface and so on; there is certainly to be considered the most difficult to scratch, we speak of habit.

According to said Andy Trish, dealer NCI Technologies, Windows XP clients are not fascinated in switching to Windows 8, mainly because many people use the same system for 11 years and do not think of any way to change. The only way to reverse this trend, according to Trish, would be to focus on the security front, maybe finding some particular flaw.

At this point, however, encounter another obstacle, namely that Microsoft will support Windows XP until 2014. We talked about this and reiterate as obviously this is too long a period of time if we think commercially. At this point, so they may intervene indirectly Antivirus companies but could not help but deny the compatibility of future releases to the old operating system, a move that because the volume of Windows XP seems unlikely.