• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      It’s an adoption problem. My company only supports windows because all our customers use windows. All our customers use windows because all their vendors only support windows.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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        51 minutes ago

        That’s why I put the (larger) there - if you are a small company maybe you can not keep up a separate office infrastructure from your deployment / test systems in case of SW development. If you are a large enterprise and use Microsoft infrastructure, then either the people making the decisions in IT are getting a lot of bribes, or they are really really stupid :) Or both.

        And I mean that absolutely without anger against Microsoft, and purely in terms of security nightmare and waste of office productivity because using a contemporary windows system wastes so much more time of any given user that each desk worker probably loses 20-70% productivity compared to a lean operating system (and that would include something like Windows 2000 / XP).

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        21 hours ago

        there’s

        1. US government, with a mandate to use Windows for the same reason that Boeing CEOs of the past decade aren’t in jail for hundredfold manslaughter
        2. other governments, where again, “shitty corporate IT” applies, but with s/corporate/administrative

        Even worse: governments using Windows are absolutely giving the US services direct access to all their confidential files & communication.