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You can't suddenly replace them, but in a lot of cases you can find that over an extended period more and more people choose the MacBook option from IT rather t
by jon-wood 7mo ago
You can't suddenly replace them, but in a lot of cases you can find that over an extended period more and more people choose the MacBook option from IT rather than the Windows one.
- john_strinlai 7mo agomost people are not willing to learn an entire new operating system for no reason, though. this might happen in tech-based companies, sure, but banks? accounting firms? ive never seen them offer macbooks. this is also ignoring all of the critical software that is windows-only (e.g. quickbooks, solidworks, bespoke programs in banks and government). point is: microsoft is not in "significant danger" today.
- olyjohn 7mo agoMost people dont even use the operating system. They look for the apps menu, then click what they want to run. Most people can switch between OSes easier than you think because there really isn't that much difference in how they work on the surface.
- john_strinlai 7mo agousers are one component, but you are still ignoring/forgetting the rest. user management, file management, security, windows-specific software, auditing requirements, required capital investment, lack of competent linux sysadmins compared to windows sysadmins, and so on.
- LtWorf 7mo ago> lack of competent linux sysadmins compared to windows sysadmins, and so on. Wasn't this a microsoft marketing campaign like 20 years ago? Are we still on it?
- jon-wood 7mo agoAn increasing number of people are coming into the workplace never having used a Windows machine, or only occasionally having done so when it was absolutely necessary.
- john_strinlai 7mo ago>An increasing number of people are coming into the workplace never having used a Windows machine i would love to see your numbers for this. what does "increasing percentage" mean? 1% -> 2%? 10% -> 20%? i teach at a college level, in tech, and would estimate ~5% of incoming students have any experience with something other than windows on a pc, at best. outside of tech, i would estimate ~2%.
- pjmlp 7mo agoMaybe in US and related high salary countries where the Apple tax isn't a problem. Rest of the world, depends pretty much even if an half work second hand PC is an option.
- criddell 7mo agoMy daughter works at a bank in Canada and she was issued a Macbook.
- john_strinlai 7mo agosurprising! what i know of canadian banks is admittedly little, so they might be moving faster than the banks i am familiar with. may i ask what department? do you know if it is managed by intune?
- criddell 7mo agoI don't know much. She isn't allowed to talk about any operational details. She just started there a few weeks ago. And Canadian banks aren't known for moving fast. They are pretty conservative (at least the big chartered banks are).
- pjmlp 7mo agoOnly in countries where the quality of life allows such decisions to take place.