The final prediction may be the most contentious. The company suggests that PCs will be increasingly locked down as a way of guarding against zero-day attacks, along with additional content filtering and network restrictions. A fixed configuration may be appropriate where there are many people doing essentially the same job (eg, in a call centre), and it may be accepted in hot-desking environments where no personalisation of the workspace is permitted.
In other situations, employees may need a degree of flexibility when it comes to installing and configuring software, and a PC's wallpaper may be considered as personal as the framed photo on the physical desktop.
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Stephen Withers is one of Australia¹s most experienced IT journalists, having begun his career in the days of 8-bit 'microcomputers'. He covers the gamut from gadgets to enterprise systems. In previous lives he has been an academic, a systems programmer, an IT support manager, and an online services manager. Stephen holds an honours degree in Management Sciences, a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies, and is a senior member of the Australian Computer Society.
