{"id":5669,"date":"2015-06-15T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2015-06-13T00:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T23:56:46","slug":"the-tools-of-a-mobile-worker-including-a-plethora-of-cables-and-adapters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-tools-of-a-mobile-worker-including-a-plethora-of-cables-and-adapters.htm","title":{"rendered":"The tools of a mobile worker… including a plethora of cables and adapters"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the great things about working for\u00a0my current employer is that they provide me with the devices I need for mobile working and we use all of the software that we are helping our customers to adopt.\u00a0My tools are a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 <\/a>tablet\u00a0and\u00a0a Nokia Lumia 830<\/a> smartphone, together with the latest released versions of Windows and Office and I consume services from the Microsoft Cloud including all of the Office 365 workloads as well as some on-premises apps like Skype for Business.\u00a0Using the full Microsoft stack does mean I’ve had to go back to using Internet Exploder\u00a0though… and I am at last getting used to Bing and weening myself of the habit of using the big G for search – at least on my work PC!<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that the use of a Surface Pro 3 was the reason I took the job – but it may have been a factor and not lugging around a heavy laptop has some major advantages (even the small form factor laptop I used for my last job was pretty weighty).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, with such a svelte device comes a down-side… namely that\u00a0I now carry a plethora of cables and adapters, as illustrated by my former colleague Dom Allen (who now works for a rival Microsoft Partner):<\/p>\n

https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/0sxOw9jjTK\/<\/p>\n

So, what’s in my bag these days alongside the Surface Pro and its charger?<\/p>\n