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Unless you happen to need to exchange Office type documents with other entities. In that case you'll need the MS Office suite for compatibility. Or your busin
by loudmax 6y ago
Unless you happen to need to exchange Office type documents with other entities. In that case you'll need the MS Office suite for compatibility.
Or your business needs niche software that only happens to exist for Windows.
Or if your business's core competency isn't technology related and you don't want to pay a premium for Apple products or hire a top tier IT staff to manage open source infrastructure.
Get out of the tech industry and see what most enterprise IT infrastructure looks like. It does not look like a healthy competitive market.
- mercer 6y agoI'm inclined to believe Microsoft still doesn't quite has the (understandably challenged) dominance it once had, but your comment gives me pause. Perhaps its stranglehold is still worth challenging? EDIT: Playing fast and loose, my characterization of the current climate is that the monopoly is more diffuse, shared with Google and Apple and Facebook, but the end result is that we've ended up with a 'triopoly' that is just as dangerous as Microsoft's monopoly was at one point in time. We're not that much better off, and the arsenal of countermeasures is much weaker in dealing with these new monopolies.