Microsoft has a company policy known as “eating your own dogfood” or “dogfooding” for short, which basically means using Microsoft products whenever possible specifically internal dev builds to essentially provide 70,000 beta testers which is great until you realize you’re advocating making 70,000 people do their work on less than beta software, even worse given that the members of that organization who make the products have very little tolerance for wasting their time on app freezes, etc.
It was in that spirit that I joined my laptop to the Austin Stone domain, because I was tired of retyping my credentials every time I wanted to access a database or remote desktop. In retrospect that makes about as much sense as removing my clutch because I want to drive an automatic. Because I’m now using a different user profile, I lost most of my settings (including my firefox extensions, I didn’t realize the internet still had ads) as well as now being subject to group policy. I feel like i need to send out an apology to the staff (or at least TJ and Murk) for the policy that locks the computer after 15 minutes of activity, which makes watching a DVD annoying as all get up. It’s a very intelligent security move though.