You say that, yet Mac and Linux grew quite a bit over the past couple years. It’s true, not everyone will drop Windows right after whatever bullshit they announce. But software and platforms are rarely abandonned over night.
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Buffalox@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Backlash is actually losing business, what they are really getting is a lot of whining from people who never do anything anyway.
It was the same with Windows 95, XP, then Vista, then 8 and 10 and now 11.
Very few who are used to Windows will abandon it just because it’s becoming a surveillance hellscape of forced updates, advertising and other annoyances.
Microsoft is posting record profits on their way down, just like Intel did 10 years ago.
That said Microsoft is still in a better position, and while Windows may lose relevancy, Microsoft has way more revenue coming from other sources than Intel had without X86.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Doesn’t matter much what users do. Corporations are nowhere close to ditching Windows.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 25 minutes ago
A lot of servers run Linux. With VDI being more plausible the idea of giving laptops that are basically a “zero” has been floated.
Last time I was in work it was in a secure environment so maybe that’s not widespread.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
You can totally manage a fleet of Linux devices. Next to all servers run Linux. How the hell would you do that without appropriate tooling? We use Ansible for example - Which certainly isn’t a perfect solution, but a working one.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I’ve seen a lot of companies that are all mac. And didnt a European government just change to all linux ?
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
My last company was a software dev and even they were only 70/40 Windows/Mac.
Yes, seems lots of European agencies are moving to FOSS, but more towards open office solutions. Moving to Linux for the OS makes fleet management pure hell. I know LDAP exists, but that doesn’t begin to compare to AD.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Corporations haven’t ditched windows because Active Directory and Group Policy had no equal. Now that Microsoft has slowly pushed everybody to cloud based identity, there’s really nothing stopping you from using something other than AD or even Entra ID
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Identity management is only one aspect of AD. Very telling that all these rebuttals are thinking only in terms of what LDAP can handle.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
A buddy of mine works for a fortune 500 company that started giving out MacBooks as the standard hardware this year. Apparently you need to jump through a bunch of hoops if you want to run Windows. I was shocked to hear it but Microsoft deserves to be humbled.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I didn’t think I’d care enough to leave Windows but I’ve been on Linux for six? months now.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Welcome to the 1%. 😋
Yes there are some that switch, and also kudos to those who try, even when they find it’s not for them.
I’m just sad that the problems with Windows isn’t enough for more to abandon it? I simply don’t get “normal” people.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 11 hours ago
As long as windows is installed by default on hardware, it’s hard to move the needle. A huge majority don’t want the headache of switching.
But, that pie is slowly being chipped away as options are available.
orclev@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Windows will be the default until suddenly it isn’t. Valve is doing amazing at destroying the core of Microsoft’s support. This story would be different if this was a decade ago, but these days most average people do their computing on phones and tablets. The ones sticking to traditional PCs are mostly gamers and now more than ever Linux is a viable alternative to Windows. Vanishingly few games can’t be played perfectly fine on Linux. Once enough gamers are using Linux it will become the default choice, and once it’s the default choice for gamers it will become the default choice for most people, at least the ones not on phones and tablets.
toddestan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It actually wouldn’t surprise me to learn that most Windows installs nowadays aren’t pre-installs but rather images deployed from a corporate IT department.
In some ways the biggest danger for Windows in the home market isn’t Linux or Mac but the people who decide they’ll just use their phone or tablet for everything. Then again, I’m not sure if Microsoft even cares about the home market.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Thing is, this agentic stuff… if it isn’t aimed at home users, who is it aimed at? Because it’s not compliant with any of the security programs IT departments are required to comply with.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Ill be honest. I never expected to leave windows but here i am doing my homework on Linux.