People are mad at Apple or ATT about this but there is no one to be mad at but yourself honestly. You bought a locked in proprietary device from a manufacturer, that can only be used on one network. Anyone that had thought past the 'but apple is kewl' part of this would have never picked up the netbook that doesn't come with a keyboard, a stand, USB, card slot or even enough storage to store half your photos, or music.

I got an idea, stop developing for a company that treats developers like they are the source of all the evil in the world. Easy as that...:)

That's a good point, if you only have 50 employees exchange/outlook might be a little over the top. However if you have 500+ employees most companies find having something easy to use, reliable, supportable, and more feature complete than anything else you can get it cheaper than not getting it. BTW, exchange has a bunch of price points too. Smaller business can get smaller group licensing deals and pay much less than $25 per seat per year.

So your suggestion that everyone learn three or four new apps each of which do only part of what Outlook does, have to move data manually between those apps, and have limited to no way to transfer that data to other users within the apps. That sounds like a great idea. The 'larger financial company' that I work for has 4 exchange admins. That's right around 1 exchange admin for every 50,000 users. We have not had an exchange outage in like 9 years and then it was only for a few hours. (and then it was a bug in exchange client not exchange server that caused the issue). There really is a reason most companies use outlook/exchange. It might be hard for you to see from a individual users level or even an engineers level (That doesn't deal with email) but there is no good alternatives, nothing that is enterprise ready that's 100% for sure, and nothing that is as easy for end users, easy for admins and as cheap in total costs as the Exchange/outlook combo. You might not like MS and I know I have my issues with them, but your picking on the wrong product here.

Call me when that market share is based on something a little less transitory. Ipads are going to end up being a bust for all the same reasons all other tablets are a bust. The iphone will continue to make money and do well, but it's market over dominance is coming to an end with Android and the like. Once the novelty of these devices wanes and the 'hippness' of Apple beings to fall people will realize they are overpriced and under perform. Apple has done great before, and they always fail in the follow up.

I really think the above is normally pretty bad advice. Being friendly, talking to people in the hall for a minute, eating lunch with your team are all good things that most people will enjoy and like about you. Being cold and distant only erodes moral and espree de corps which does not look good to your boss and will look even less good when your team reviews at the end of the year say "Not a team player", "Unfriendly", "Cold and Unapproachable". Just be clean, be nice, and get your work done and you will do fine. There are a thousand other things to remember, Don't gossip negativity about others, but feel free to gossip positively about people, Help those in trouble, be quick to forgive a mistake, always try to avoid getting anyone in trouble, Volunteer for the work no one else wants to do if you can. Etc etc etc, but mostly it boils down to be clean, be nice and get your work done.

My company did the same thing. Well except they gave us all laptops to use. Tell them it's fine, but if you want me to work at home you have to give me a laptop. If they refuse, just stop doing that work at home.

Sure you can. In MD they use security camera's all the time. In fact I have seen hidden security cameras in MD. The only time consent for taking your picture or recording is necessary is when one or more parties have assumed privacy. IE in there own home, on the phone, etc. Once you are in public is doesn't matter. Consent BTW doesn't have to be in writing either. If the camera is obvious that's good enough.