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I also worked for a big corp recently where IT would not issue a Mac to anyone unless they worked in a "creative area". Some of the Intranet tools were strictly
by snorkel 15y ago
I also worked for a big corp recently where IT would not issue a Mac to anyone unless they worked in a "creative area". Some of the Intranet tools were strictly IE-only too, as in changing your user agent to IE didn't help you at all.
The silly part of the Windows-only IT policy is that it's intended to simplify IT support when in fact every week IT would broadcast alerts "EMERGENCY: Everybody must stop what you are doing and run this urgent security update!!!" That was a weekly ritual. Not to mention "New version of Office! Please install it!" ... two weeks later "Office update! Please install it" ... and so on.
So glad to be back in a Mac world.
- smithian 15y agoYou worked at a company with a dysfunctional IT department. In non-dysfunctional IT departments, security updates application patches are installed automatically without user intervention.