Backing up to timecapsule from windows based pc??

Am I misunderstanding the time capsule? I thought that I could back up my macbookpro AND my dell onto this. Any help would be great!!! Thanks

you can copy those files to any computer, mac windows it doesn't matter. You can do that over your home lan, after you set up files sharing on both the dell and the mac, or you can copy them to the thumb drive, formatted fat 32, and then copy them over to the mac.
To open them you will need MS Office 2011 for mac or one of the free office suites like Open office or lebri office.
As for the pad I have no idea if there is a program made that can open word documents on ios.

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