• nbsp@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    is there any anecdotal evidence that IT departments are at least considering, thinking about, having an initial assessment of doing anything but just buying whatever slop microsoft is spewing out?

    kinda feels like until the river of gold from enterprise sales slows there is no downside to microsoft burning their platform.

    my anecdote is that no, IT is still a MS crack addict.

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      2 months ago

      People can barely use Windows and it’s been around for 30 years.

      I am not teaching 180+ staff how to use Macs or Linux.

      I’m not an MS fanboy by any means, but my job is hard enough without adding extra shit sprinkles on top.

      Fuck that.

      You obviously have zero knowledge about working in that environment.

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        2 months ago

        I am not teaching 180+ staff how to use Macs or Linux.

        It’s not like they know how to use Windows either.

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        2 months ago

        aww, chear up, here have a hug (⁠*⁠˘⁠︶⁠˘⁠*⁠)⁠.⁠。⁠*⁠♡

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      2 months ago

      It’s because they sell all of their products as a vendor package with advertised SLAs and “discounts”.

      If your company needs cloud stuff and you happen to want Azure, you’re basically getting locked into Teams.

      Unlike specialty software like Adobe, pretty much everything Microsoft offers has feature parity or superior alternatives, it just relies on the fact that businesses aren’t stuck on any one of their products.

      There are actually a handful of companies that only use MacOS or Linux, but it requires both your IT team and management to be competent enough to throw MSFT away, which is much harder to do in a legacy settings when your entire domain infara is a 20+ year old AD domain.

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      2 months ago

      The IT dept at my work uses exclusively Microsoft shit. Like, google products are banned on my work phone, as is pretty much everything else. They said this is for security and to help them remain GDPR compliant. As you might imagine, it’s shit.

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          2 months ago

          Not entirely. It’s an android so it does have the play store, but only about a dozen apps are allowed to be installed. I can’t even install what 3 words, which my work uses constantly. Also I’d like to install the Google swipe keyboard, cos the Microsoft one is shit.

          Basically, the combination of a device that’s locked down hard and it only allowing MS products makes my work slower and harder than it needs to be.