• Seton Hall University will begin using the cloud-based Office 365 for education as its email provider, and will give all of its students the choice of either a Samsung Series 7 tablet or a Samsung Series 5 ultrabook in addition to a Nokia Lumia 900 Windows phone.
• Having experimented with the iPad, Kindle and other tablets, Seton Hall chose the two Samsung models because of their enterprise functions and ability to distribute apps to large groups despite the fact that it would cost over twice as much to deploy Samsung Windows 8 tablets instead of iPads to students.
• Though standardization on Windows 8 could save the university money in new management software, students following the BYOD trend may be less inclined to carry multiple devices.

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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. …