Microsoft reboots war on sleep

Way back nearly two decades ago, I set up an early version of ActiveSync on my Palm Treo device. I noticed there was an option in the Treo email settings to disable real time syncing between certain times (after office hours), but I was SO excited about getting and responding to real time emails on my little phone device that I thought "Who the HECK would want to stop this wonderful flow of emails".

Later when I upgraded to the first gen iPhones, I noticed that they didn't have the option to turn off ActiveSync at all. I thought it was odd, but I still didn't mind.

Nowadays, I often leave my phone on DND or Airplane mode for large chunks of the day. I am totally sick of the deluge of mail from what is now 6 separate email addresses. I note that iOS 10 still hasn't got the ability to turn off syncing between certain hours that I know of. On top of that, I have alerts constantly popping up from Twitter, Slack, HelpScout, Intercom et al.

I think the whole "Work can wait" movement is a good one that needs to be front and center at a lot of workplaces (and a lot of apps).

EDIT: Thanks to the responses below, I now realise that iOS 10 DOES indeed have the capability to turn on DND during certain hours only! Winning.

Re: Microsoft reboots war on sleep

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Post by dschuetz » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 12:02 PM UTC

That's what Microsoft should learn: People say they worked in the bathroom, or had meetings on lunchtime, when in fact they shouldn't. Keep your work at bay, keep your work at work. Otherwise it puts you in the grave. Now, Microsoft thinks that's what workers want by totally misinterpreting their usage studies. Hello?

Is anybody there, Microsoft? Are you endorsing burnout?! In case that you've missed, people want to have their work done before they go home. With your crappy office software it was never possible, now it should invade our spare time? Fuck you Microsoft, and get it done!

Re: Microsoft reboots war on sleep

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Post by Kiro » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 12:02 PM UTC

Chill down.

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Post by cbernini » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 12:02 PM UTC

What really scares me is the fact that MS would present itself as a company that now focus on enabling people, and then decides that by enabling they only move towards getting work done, thus depriving people of the very life they should be allowed to enjoy.

With all the current privacy discussion going on, it's kinda lame to work somewhere you're supposed to take corporate phones and so on back home - EDIT: considering the future might look like 1984 when it comes to surveillance.