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> One of the main values of Windows today, at least for businesses, is backwards-compatibility That may be true for small businesses, but I think the single bi
by TheRealDunkirk 6y ago
> One of the main values of Windows today, at least for businesses, is backwards-compatibility
That may be true for small businesses, but I think the single biggest value of Windows to BIG businesses is the ability to screw around with the policies such that, for instance, you can lock a user out of changing their screensaver timeout or their desktop background, as though this had any actual impact on security.
My corporate laptop is infested with tracker programs and scripts which make sure I literally can't do anything with it that I shouldn't, but I have friends who work at places which have even more "corporatized" environments. At least, as a dev, I'm allowed to have local admin through a separate, privileged account.
Thanks to a Microsoft-funded trade press, every CIO of a Fortune-sized company believes you have to implement all of this crap in order to be "secure." (Meanwhile, the mainframe skates by on non-encrypted connections and 6-digit alphanumeric passwords. Straining at gnats and swallowing camels.)
We switched from Lotus to Office365, for a few glorious months, I could access everything from my personal Mac. Then they instituted Mobile Iron. So I created a Windows VM to let MI have it's way with, but then my company further locked down Office365 (and the Azure portal and everything else) so that ONLY their images could get to them. Sigh.
I have scores of company-specific programs on my laptop. They're all either Java or .NET, and could easily be recompiled for Linux or Mac. (I've done it for several of my own programs.) Every commercial app I have is supported on at least Mac. Everything else is web-based anyway. The only thing keeping companies on Windows is the control it gives them over the desktop. I, for one, am very glad that people involved in Linux don't care about this aspect of computing, and that Apple is catering to PEOPLE, not companies.