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Locking down IT or blocking creativity

By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial

Posted in Enterprise, Business, Hardware, Networking on February 27, 2008 at 12:28 am

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Is a Windows desktop an expensive and insecure liability that you’d like to get under control, or a flexible and powerful tool that lets your employees work, play and be productive? Martin Banks reported recently on an insurance company who rolled out two whole new overseas offices without leaving the office by shipping out thin clients. You can’t complain about the efficiency for the IT team but I wondered about the difference for the end users. Did they have as much freedom and flexibility - in terms of trying new things or in terms of being allowed the level of personal use people expect (in the UK at least)?

If they can’t, some IT teams might be quite happy, Martin told me. Flexibility and personal use

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