[starik36]

They should be, but they are not. And don't get me started on the ensuing hell if you are trying to share your desktop via WebEx or Lync.

My favorite exchange at the meeting couple of weeks ago (with a remote sales rep).

Meeting organizer: Just press the Start button and then type... Sales Rep: I don't see any Start button.

This went on for 5 minutes with 20 people in the meeting waiting around. Turned out, sales rep got a new Windows 8 laptop - no Start button.

[danielweber]

Ugh. Biz people can be really bad at this, because they think everyone has Powerpoint.

Once when I was remote, I specifically arranged before the meeting with one coworker to set up a kibbutz session (kibbutz is an expect-script that works a lot like screen, and screen may well have worked, too) showing my terminal, and she was hooked up to the projector, so I could visually walk everyone through my code.