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My experience is that it's a love/hate relationship. Often the IT management prefers to run with Microsoft if they can because it's already interated into the e
by gnaffle 14y ago
My experience is that it's a love/hate relationship. Often the IT management prefers to run with Microsoft if they can because it's already interated into the existing infrastructure. And Microsoft has very good salespeople that can tell these managers how well a new product integrates with their existing Windows platform.
Any new platform threatens to add more support and more work and contains lots of unknowns.
The "lower parts" of IT often knows more about the pain points of certain Microsoft products and have more hate then love, or at least are more open to consider alternatives.
Microsoft has a _lot_ of enterprise software that is not easy to replace for a big company, not to mention third party software that runs on Windows. And some of that software works pretty well.
Microsoft screwing up their mobile strategy has now shown the IT departments at most major companies that iOS and Android devices can work just fine, and this is the beginning of the end for Microsoft dominance in the enterprise.