Microsoft and the future of Hybrid work

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Microsoft is indicating that they will be doing a presentation on April 5th on Hybrid work and upcoming changes to Windows 11 professional. Meanwhile
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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I realize that advertising and marketing are part of and essential to a free and open market system and a capitalism based economy, but corporations and businesses have proven that they are incapable of regulating themselves when it comes to how intrusive their advertising and marketing practices are or might become in the digital age. Google, Apple and Microsoft have all demonstrated that competition for advertising and marketing dollars drives the saturation level and intrusiveness of these practices. Many websites have far, far more ads and marketing content than what is required to pay for the existence of the website. Some weather information websites have three times as much advertising and marketing content as weather information, which makes you wonder whether the website exists for providing the weather information or the ads. Perhaps the Federal Trade Commission can regulate such things; that is one of the reasons government exists after all, to regulate the excesses of capitalism and competition on behalf of the people for whom the government exists. Otherwise, the people themselves will have to organize in other ways to regulate these excesses, such as through organized boycotts of businesses and products.

 

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Average-Jane, OscarCP

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“Why were you even testing it internally in the first place?”

Because that’s their way.  It was no accident, but a false flag operation to test public reception.

 

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Average-Jane, Norio

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Oops….

 

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Yup, good observation.  Micro$oft just wants to see how much they can get away with.  They are not professional or mature at all.  They remind me of a 10-year-old that keeps testing limits.  This way, they don’t have to take any responsibility for the idiotic ideas they have on how to make more money.

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wdburt1

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Not once will “how will this benefit the users?” have entered their heads.
You are just a product to them, you will do what they say and use YOUR computer how THEY decide.

And that’s why I’m still on W7..

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Average-Jane, wdburt1, JPMedia

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Susan Bradley wrote:

Microsoft is indicating that they will be doing a presentation on April 4th on Hybrid work and upcoming changes to Windows 11 professional.

April 5th:

Join Windows Executive Vice President & Chief Product Officer Panos Panay for the keynote address on April 5, 2022.

Windows Powers the Future of Hybrid Work

Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.1778 + Microsoft 365 + Edge

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Fixed it. 🙂

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So, from reading up a bit on it,  Hybrid work means something like letting you work from home or at your office, seemlessly going from one computer to another. Do I have this right?

Also, do we have any advanced knowledge of what changes Microsoft may be bringing up about Windows Professional?

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/business/compare-plans-pricing-b?OCID=AID2202252_OLA_26976443_324073129_164880114

It could mean also cloud pcs.  Unknown at this time, we’ll let you know in April.

For me personally Hybrid typically means some stuff here on premises, some stuff there in the cloud, not necessarily Home or Office.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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“The future of hybrid work”: I imagine MS is going to announce plans to introduce something to make easy to work both from home and at the office in different days. “Teams” is widely used by some government Agencies, such as NASA, here in the USA, so I suppose this would be about building, changing, adapting what they already have for telecommuting and adding other pieces to this particular puzzle.

Having said that, this “hybrid” topic and the advertising topic, it seems to me, are very much unrelated.

On a personal note on ads: I am hardly ever bothered by advertising because I am a determined user of ad-blocking software and only relent in some very especial cases, when I really need to read something at a site that tells me not to use the adblocker there. Otherwise, when I see that message telling me that in a box blocking the content from being read, I skip the site.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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LH, wdburt1

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OK, I click on through to the Microsoft page.  I read it and find no definition of “hybrid work.”  Apparently you have to see the presentation before they will define it.  This is a classic sign of a scam in the information age.  We want you and your personal information, and your clicks, before we give you more than a come-on.

Apparently “hybrid work” is a coined term for what some people have been doing for ages, and so it’s more than a little pretentious.  In my life I have worked from home, from the office, and on the road, including branch offices.  To make it work you have to have some control over the terms of your employment, and with that freedom comes responsibility to your employer, if there is one.  Sounds to me like Microsoft wants to get in the middle of all that.

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Microsoft has defined and described hybrid work numerous times over the last year or more:

What’s hybrid work?

People working together, both online and in-person, at anytime from anywhere — home, remote, or an office.

Hybrid Work – Work from home, work remote, or do both

How Microsoft approaches hybrid work: A new guide to help our customers

Microsoft announces new research and technology to make hybrid work work

The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready?

Hybrid work is here. Are you ready?

Hybrid work is here to stay

Great expectations: A road map for making hybrid work work

Navigating the complexities of hybrid work together

Navigating hybrid work together

 

What personal information has been requested?

 

Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.1778 + Microsoft 365 + Edge

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wdburt1

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I don’t see any of those links on the Microsoft page that Susan linked to, or any other link that looks like a place to get an explanation of what they are pitching.

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I agree with the false flag hypothesis.  Hope to see an update to the Windows 11 local account situation as well!  And on the subject of ads, uBlock Origin and uMatrix are my go-to tools, and it’s time for the yearly AskWoody contribution.

 

EDIT: I am hoping one of the big names here sees this.  I extended membership, $30; the buttons and the Extend Membership page say that this extends membership for one year.  My profile, however, says that my membership expires “March 27, 2024”.

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All this speculation is exiting, but how about waiting to see what the coming MS talk fest actually reveals?

Probably something not particularly interesting, but who knows?

As to Average-Jane comment on security measures:

I use and ad blocker, as well as those other two security applications mentioned by Average-Jane. It is the ad blocker, in my experience, that stops ads being showed and that, when whitelisting in it a particular site, lets me see what is there without getting blocked. I do this rarely and for just that one visit at the site. Then I usually remove it from the whitelist.

Besides the protection offered by those other two applications, I have an AV that scans the SSD in real time, so anything malignant coming in through an ad when I whitelist a site is likely to be spotted and neutralized automatically.

Besides, I regularly remove garbage, whether innocuous or dangerous, that might accumulate in the caches and also have my browsers set to not allow in 3rd party cookies and delete all cookies from sites I have not whitelisted there, when I close a browser.

That is just the prevention part. For the cure part, I do regular backups.

Does this keeps me quite free of potentially serious problems?

No. I still have to be careful what I click on, which sites I go to on the Web, for example. But it is safer than otherwise.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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Let’s see. From the linked site not much explanation.
Hmmmmm, let’ see…..
Hybrid work….
Grafting trees?  Artificial pollination? Cross breeding species?
Many (most) Hybrids are non-productive.

🙂   🙂

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wdburt1

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