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They make great corporate devices, depending on the needs of your users. Great security with very minimal configuration, which is really not the case for most o

by eli 3y ago

They make great corporate devices, depending on the needs of your users. Great security with very minimal configuration, which is really not the case for most of the competition.

Affric 3y ago
Introduction failed at one of my workplaces for a three big reasons (in the order they arose during the small scale trial): 1. Incompatibility with our stack for our front line staff. 2. No Excel which was preferred internally and externally 3. No Word which to this day is used by many customers and external vendors Now the first one may well not be an issue if one were setting up a new company today but the third is not an issue now with Google Docs being able to parse docx well but at the time it caused shenanigans. We ended up migrating all staff to google docs while on windows and giving Microsoft office licences to particular users who could justify it from a technical perspective (rather than an “i don’t want to learn new tech” perspective). Excel, though, is still untouchable at a certain level. Demonstrations of macros that took moments in excel taking eternities in sheets. Poor data wrangling capabilities. Obviously some features simply not existing at all. I guess the company saved millions over some period by switching to mostly being a google shop but native Excel would be worth its weight in gold to Microsoft.
- eli 3y ago
  O365 Excel and Word both work pretty darn well in a browser and there are native Android versions as well. Fully capable of opening/editing random documents. But yeah if you're doing Hardcore Excel Stuff you are pretty much required to run it in Windows. Even the Mac version isn't close enough. In addition to employees sometimes needing a native app like Photoshop, we also ran into some issues with build quality of some of the devices. Solvable by buying higher end chromebooks, but then you undercut some of the cost savings. Provisioning, backup, device replacement, security were all a breeze though.

by eli 3y ago

They make great corporate devices, depending on the needs of your users. Great security with very minimal configuration, which is really not the case for most of the competition.

Affric 3y ago

Introduction failed at one of my workplaces for a three big reasons (in the order they arose during the small scale trial): 1. Incompatibility with our stack for our front line staff. 2. No Excel which was preferred internally and externally 3. No Word which to this day is used by many customers and external vendors Now the first one may well not be an issue if one were setting up a new company today but the third is not an issue now with Google Docs being able to parse docx well but at the time it caused shenanigans. We ended up migrating all staff to google docs while on windows and giving Microsoft office licences to particular users who could justify it from a technical perspective (rather than an “i don’t want to learn new tech” perspective). Excel, though, is still untouchable at a certain level. Demonstrations of macros that took moments in excel taking eternities in sheets. Poor data wrangling capabilities. Obviously some features simply not existing at all. I guess the company saved millions over some period by switching to mostly being a google shop but native Excel would be worth its weight in gold to Microsoft.

eli 3y ago
O365 Excel and Word both work pretty darn well in a browser and there are native Android versions as well. Fully capable of opening/editing random documents. But yeah if you're doing Hardcore Excel Stuff you are pretty much required to run it in Windows. Even the Mac version isn't close enough. In addition to employees sometimes needing a native app like Photoshop, we also ran into some issues with build quality of some of the devices. Solvable by buying higher end chromebooks, but then you undercut some of the cost savings. Provisioning, backup, device replacement, security were all a breeze though.