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I'm not in IT anymore and we run 100% macs, so serious question here: isn't nearly everything a webapp nowadays? Every "non dev" thing that I have to do for wor
by throaway920181 2y ago
I'm not in IT anymore and we run 100% macs, so serious question here: isn't nearly everything a webapp nowadays? Every "non dev" thing that I have to do for work happens in my browser or an electron app. I guess maybe MS Office apps may be the biggest hitch? We use Google Workspace and that's all in browser.
- ricardobayes 2y agoNot at all. "Industry", think: manufacturing is still big on desktop applications.
- 63stack 2y agoShouldn't be too hard to bundle them together with qemu, or some other vm solution.
- windowsrookie 2y agoLegacy apps are quite common. I have recently been doing IT for State Farm Insurance. Every State Farm insurance office in the country is still using a DOS App from the 1980's to run their office.
- myng111 2y agoI'm interested what these DOS applications are running on. Is it virtualised or a real physical machine?
- Novosell 2y agoThere are actually web versions of the office suite now.
- aveao 2y agoIt's horrible to use though. Google's suite is somewhat better than MSFT's web one, but it still is weak compared to any established desktop office suite, even libreoffice.
- Novosell 2y agoI've found it alright to be honest. I'd like to use libre office but the incompatibilities with .docx make it too annoying. Finally I can easily work with .docx on Linux, thanks to the web version :)
- aveao 2y agoIt's only good for viewing and simplistic editing. More complex stuff ends up being unavailable on the web version very often.
- swarnie 2y agoNone of my enterprise ERP/PLM/CRM systems run on Mac Server OS