Journal BarbaraHudson's Journal: Is Windows 10 really that "business friendly?" 3
Sure, the conventional start menu is back, but the live tiles off to the side are going to present two problems for business, who will probably want to lock that feature down tight or remove it entirely. I can't picture employers wanting their employees to customize the menu so that they can see their facebook, twitter, or other social media feeds. And I don't think employers want every supplier of data to a live tile to know every time the user clicks the start menu.
Sure, you could set a time between refreshes (but that sort of defeats the whole concept of a "live" tile), but the suppliers of the data feeds are still going to have some idea of when the person starts work, etc.
Back when businesses first integrated Windows into their workspaces, there was a tremendous waste of time by employees playing solitaire and arranging the desktop the way they liked it, always fiddling around with the wallpaper and icons. And then the web came along, in many ways making things worse. And smartphones. Live tiles are going to be yet another distraction. Every time a user goes to start another application, they're going to be presented with several opportunities to look at something else instead. Distractions lead to mistakes and lower productivity, and businesses will be paying for this. So too will employees who find themselves out of a job because they get caught up in the "new shiny" to the point where their work suffers.
At least with Windows 8.1, you can disable showing the start menu by default and never see a live tile. Unless Microsoft provides a way to completely lock down or disable tiles in the start menu, I don't think Windows 10 is going to be classifiable as "business friendly".
Anything can be controlled (Score:2)
That's all pretty much a non-argument. Live tile content can be turned on or off by application, or live tiles can be completely disabled. So if a business wants to turn off live tiles for Twitter, they can send out a Group Policy Object to disable live tiles on the Twitter app. They could also add custom live tiles for the corporate share price, company newsletter, web server status, or whatever they want. Don't worry about them.
And as far as I'm concerned, live tiles have never been an issue with Wind
moof (Score:1)
I run the server version of Windows 8.1 at work, and have all my apps pinned to the task bar or whatever. Same for when I was running Windows 7 prior; never went to the Start menu (because I've always hated it). I shudder to think if there are very many people that sift thru that hierarchical behemoth of a usability nightmare each time they want to launch an application. Then they'd see live tiles jiggling in their face, but hopefully practically no one is that silly. As you say, I think most people lik
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p.s. On a personal note, while your wanting to return to Slashdot is quite mind-boggling, I'm very glad to hear that you're doing okay.
Boggled my mind too. I really, REALLY missed you guys. And I must be doing something right - two submissions accepted to the front page today, one Friday ... I just pick things that I think would be interesting to people.