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Banning the platform most of your users are using doesn't sound like a great idea to me. There's enormous value in eating one's own dogfood (and stuff running i

by chl 16y ago

Banning the platform most of your users are using doesn't sound like a great idea to me. There's enormous value in eating one's own dogfood (and stuff running in Chrome is an entirely different kind of dogfood than stuff running in IE, on Windows).

ThomPete 16y ago
Exactly. One has to wonder what kind of culture this fosters with time.
- DrSprout 16y ago
  Increasingly their users are going to be using Macs and Android, and I really do expect Linux distros to start to see an upswing as data becomes accessible on more and more devices.
- wendroid 16y ago
  A Windowsless one where one can shrug and go "meh, works for me on Linux" for a change
enomar 16y ago
From what I've heard, very few engineers were using Windows in the first place. This mostly affected sales people.
dstorrs 16y ago
According to the article, this is only for primary machines. They will likely still have secondaries and/or VMs running Windows, for testing and etc.
FlorinAndrei 16y ago
People who actually need Windows for some business-related reason can still get a licensed copy, they just need approval from higher ranks now. So, "ban" - not so much. More like "strongly discouraged unless there's a reason".