MicrosoftOne question - how do I get my old Whiteboard back? This rolled out to our surface hub and now one of my favorite collaborative tools became all but unusable. With all the highlighting of new features, it is important to note how this significantly negatively impacted the Surface Hub. It feels like Whiteboard was redesigned with remote work in mind, but completely forgetting that many companies still do in-person collaboration.
Our Surface Hub has two digital markers associated with it. In the past, we could have one team member using each pen with a different selected color. Two people could be drawing at the same time with different colors. This made for highly effective collaborative design working sessions. Now, each contributor has to draw one at a time. And, the color picked by one contributor affects both pens.
The erase feature isn't even an eraser anymore - it's a delete tool. Sometimes you draw just a little bit too long of a line and want to shorten it some. The new "erase" will completely delete the entire object.
When writing or drawing, there is now a noticeable lag between the gesture and the response, and touch sensitivity has become much less accurate.
When we got our Surface Hub, it was a wonderful upgrade from dry erase boards. Based on the current version of Whiteboard, going back to a dry erase board would be an upgrade.
