﻿ University Deploying Thousands of Windows 8 Tablets Is Smart
Tactics, Flawed Strategy | ZDNet    Summary: The CIO of Seton
Hall University wants to standardize on Windows 8 tablets and
PCs. In the age of thriftiness, BYOD and end user choice, that
seems like a losing strategy.  (August 15, 2012: Seton Hall's
CIO counters my argument. Read his letter here.)  Twenty miles
from Manhattan, New Jersey's Seton Hall University is offering
about 2,500 students, including all incoming freshmen and junior
students, the choice of either a Samsung Series 7 tablet or
Samsung Series 5 ultrabook running Windows 8 Release Preview
version, as well as Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phones.   The
laptops and tablets will be updated to the official RTM (Release
To Manufacturing) of Windows 8 after its release on October 26.
Seton Hall is going all-in on Microsoft. It's also using Office
365 for education for e-mail and other collaboration. While I
think the school's move has some short-term merits, I also think
it unwisely bucks lon