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maybe enough hn users could get their companies stop using windows (but i guess the sysadmins are on slashdot iirc)

• self_awareness 3y ago
  Unfortunately, HN crowd suffers from the "someone, please, do something" syndrome. (Also: "Here is how the law should look like: we all should get a raise")
• o1y32 3y ago
  I don't know which world you live in, but I am pretty confident that there aren't that many HN users in my software company, even among developers Even so people (HN or not) won't give up their productivity tool their daily work relies on because of some nuisance or really, ideal. I have seen comments where people are so pissed off by the aggressive ads in Windows that they switched to Linux or Mac, but the number is going to be very small.
• yanellena 3y ago
  Realistically what are the alternatives to Microsoft 365 with the same level of functionality?
• dimmke 3y ago
  The problem is, Microsoft is entrenched with everybody but software engineers and server administrators. Even “IT people” - their primary domain of skill is working with Windows etc… And Microsoft has leveraged this dominance to coerce companies into their cloud services too. Microsoft is a lich, it can’t be killed. It just has to be managed around.
• jabroni_salad 3y ago
  I'm the IT guy. It's the LOB apps that require windows, not the company. Stop selling us windows-exclusive software and we can talk. Yeah, it's really cool what you can do with wine and proton these days. Can I do that to a bank teller's computer and expect the vendor to answer the phone if something goes wrong? and honestly, windows is pretty durable these days. 'desktop stuff' is less than 5% of my timesheet and I really do have better things to be doing with my time than trying to achieve the current baseline functionality with noncooperative methods.