I luckily am members of two awesome groups: SPYam (The SharePoint Yammer Community founded by Joel Oleson) and the Microsoft Northeast SharePoint Community (founded by Chris Bortlik). Its value comes from the groups that you are members of, so by itself it is a dessert. Yammer, for those who haven’t used it, is a Facebook like community that allows professionals to discuss topics (think Facebook for business). Here is a comparison on Forbes of the Microsoft Surfact RT versus the Asus VivoTab RT. Lately I have been visiting the Cambridge Micro Center to play with an Asus ARM based tablet called the Asus Vivo Tab RT TF600T that is the same size and weight as an iPad, and a heck of a lot lighter than the Surface RT, but since it is not an Intel based device, it won’t run Windows 8 desktop apps other than PowerPoint, Excel, and Microsoft Word which are OEM bundled on the device. But lately, I’ve been spending much of my free time experimenting with Windows 8, but I haven’t made the transition yet to using as my primary OS. On Windows 7 and Mac OS, I use the browser version (web based app). I also use it heavily on my Android phone. I use it more than any other app on my iPad.
If a particular tile is annoying you, simply right-click it and select the turn live tile off option from the bottom toolbar that is displayed as a consequence.Yammeris now my favorite iPad app. You can turn off notifications for individual tiles or for all tiles. Pause option to stop but not disable notifications.Change the update frequency automatically if there are no new items to display to slow down the switching.Add options to change the update frequency manually.That is not only useless from a usability point of view, but also unnerving as it is adding additional noise to the colorful startpage.īefore I look at options to turn notifications off for specific apps or for all apps, I'd like to write down how Microsoft or third party developers can improve the experience. Some apps iterate between two notifications over and over again in five-or-so second intervals. What I find most irritating is the frequency in which apps update their news. I can see where this may come in handy: a mail widget displaying the unread mail count, a weather app cycling through all weather conditions in selected places, or the finance app highlighting latest stock market happenings in realtime. Maybe it is just me, but the majority of notifications that apps displays on Windows 8's new and shiny startpage are rather irritating and repetitive.
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