Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 month agoYou 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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Doesn’t matter much what users do. Corporations are nowhere close to ditching Windows.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month 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.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Please tell us the name of this 110% software dev, so we can avoid it. There is a min amount of math needed here.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I feel like AD is a solution for a problem that Microsoft created.
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You do know you can use AD with Linux, don’t you?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you commenting from the year 2007?
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month 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.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 1 month 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.