Delta loves Windows 8 - will equip pilots with Surface 2 tablets

Concluding month, Delta decided to equip 19,000 of their flying attendants with Windows Phone devices; the move immune attendants to admission a new bespeak of sale organization built upon the Microsoft Dynamics for Retail platform. This month Delta has besides decided to equip its pilots with Windows tablets, merely non the Nokia "Sirius" tablet it had originally planned.

Delta has announced they will be equipping their pilots with Microsoft Surface 2 tablets. The transition is an effort by the visitor to go dark-green and paperless. Electronic flying data volition allow data to be updated and changed as needed, besides every bit being fully manageable by Delta.

According to a spokesperson from Delta, "In less than ii years, Delta cockpits volition be paperless every bit we gyre-out the Microsoft Surface 2 tablet running Windows 8.i RT as our company-issued devices." The company has stated that the rollout will begin with their 757 and 767 fleets and eventually spread to their 777, 747, and MD88 planes.

As of at present, Delta pilots are immune to bring their own tablets, mainly iPads, into the cockpit with them to help manage flights. The visitor hopes to shift away from the current Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy and accept their pilots switch to visitor-issued devices.

The fact that tablets are currently being allowed in cockpits, is causing a controversial concern over whether or not pilots are actually doing their job or but enjoying a fleck of in-flight entertainment. Devices issued by Delta itself, could use group policies to ensure those using the devices are using them for what they are intended for.

Microsoft has no plans to kill off Windows RT and the "lonely operating system" might find a home for itself inside enterprise environments where cheap, yet productive tablets, are a growing need.

Allow us just hope Delta does not blue screen on my adjacent domestic flying.

Source: WindowsITPro

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