So your department needs a document management system that will make sure you are in compliance with all of the regulatory requirements that affect your industr

So your department needs a document management system that will make sure you are in compliance with all of the regulatory requirements that affect your industry as well as interface accordingly with vendors and other departments in your organization. The software has plugins with Word 2013 on Windows, Acrobat 11 on Windows and Outlook 2013 on Windows, but now people are allowed to pick whatever platform they want. What do you tell the Mac user? What do you tell the Linux user? Boot a VM whenever you want to work on a document? What do you tell the iPad user? In many large organizations, simple file systems won't work because they don't scale and you can't tell a legal department "oh, you need to share/version/distribute documents? just use this program called git, it's easy, let me show you and once you've got the hang of it, you call the appellate judge and tell him that he just needs to do a git pull to get your brief". When every software package that's deployed in millions of installations around the world that's only available in the Windows/Office/IE environment is completely cross-platform, then yes, you'll have completely interoperability between Windows, Mac and Linux machines, as well as iOS and Android devices. Until, the "I've had Mac, Linux and Windows machines on a home network" line has no bearing whatsoever on intolerability of software packages an enterprise environment that needs to interface to hundreds of external organizations daily.