上图数据来自福雷斯特研究公司（Forrester Research）上季度对172个国家的9,766名所谓“移动办公者”进行的一项调查。这项调查所服务的对象是该公司平时的目标客户——也就是企业的首席信息官们。

    作为近年来的一种新兴现象，所谓的“自带设备上班”（bring your own device，BYOD）已经影响了企业首席信息官对办公室计算环境的控制程度。在这份调查中，福雷斯特公司试图了解的问题之一就是，所谓的“自带设备上班”趋势是否已经到了顶峰。简而言之，答案是否定的。根据这份调查，全球约有2.58亿员工选择自带笔记本工作，1.29亿员工选择自行购买智能手机。而平板电脑将成为“自带设备上班”的另一个战场。

    从上图中可以发现以下几点：

    • 目前全球37%的BYOD智能手机运行着谷歌的安卓（Android）平台。

    • 相比之下，更多的移动办公者——总数多达2.08亿人——想要苹果的iPhone手机。

    • 目前有12%的移动工作者使用iPad。

    • 但是更多的人（总数达2亿）希望他们的下一台平板电脑能运行微软的Windows系统。

    福雷斯特研究公司总结道，尽管目前微软的Surface和Surface Pro等平板产品销量平平，但是“微软平板电脑的前途看起来还是很光明的。”

    The graphic above comes from a survey of 9,766 so-called mobile information workers in 17 countries conducted last quarter by Forrester Research for its usual target audience: corporate chief information officers.

    One of the questions Forrester was trying to answer is whether the BYOD (bring your own device) trend -- a movement that has undermined the CIOs' traditional control of the office computing environment -- has peaked. The short answer? No. According to the survey, an estimated 258 million workers around the world choose their own laptops and 129 million buy their own smartphones. The next battleground: tablets.

    As for the findings in the chart, several points stand out:

    • Currently 37% of all BYOD smartphones run on Google's (GOOG) Android platform

    • More mobile information workers -- 208 million in all -- want Apple (AAPL) iPhones

    • Currently 12% of mobile enterprise workers use iPads

    • But more -- 200 million -- hope that their next tablet will run Miscrosoft (MSFT) Windows

    "Microsoft's tablet future looks bright," Forrester concludes. This despite the fact that sales of Microsoft's current offerings -- the Surface and Surface Pro -- have so far failed to move the needle.