Companies are stuck with Windows because that’s what the workforce understands and there is nothing remotely close to Active Directory. They’re stuck with Office because nothing can replace Excel.
Lemmy: “I’ve been using Linux for years. These companies are so dumb.”
There’s nothing like it in the Linux or Mac worlds. People have often told me, “LDAP exists!” Yeah, for authentication, and that’s about it.
If you’re a Windows sysadmin and you think, “I wonder if I could do this thing?”, the answer is “yes”, there’s an easy way to do that thing and/or a Group Policy Object to be applied. AD is a truly amazing system for managing a fleet of PCs.
Wondering that myself. MDM is pretty wide spread and Mac has great centralized management with all the invasion of privacy the org admin could ask for.
If I recall correctly, there was a intention in a European country to switch a department to a fork of OnlyOffice, but “there was too many bugs and incompability issues that it didn’t make it reliable”, and the employees still had access to Microsoft 365, so my bet is that some tried it and when they don’t understand it they kept using Microsoft Office.
Please if anyone else have more info please share it, I remember hearing about this from TheLinuxExperiment.
Still in development, but some packages are ready to run.
Remember, it’s not just document apps and such, it’s connection and collaboration that MS provides. Some of it is quite complex on the backend so it can look simple on the frontend.
and gives customers yet another wake up call on why it’s bad to depend on Microsoft let alone any one company for critical operations…
Companies are stuck with Windows because that’s what the workforce understands and there is nothing remotely close to Active Directory. They’re stuck with Office because nothing can replace Excel.
Lemmy: “I’ve been using Linux for years. These companies are so dumb.”
Moron here. Whats so unobtanium about Active Directory?
There’s nothing like it in the Linux or Mac worlds. People have often told me, “LDAP exists!” Yeah, for authentication, and that’s about it.
If you’re a Windows sysadmin and you think, “I wonder if I could do this thing?”, the answer is “yes”, there’s an easy way to do that thing and/or a Group Policy Object to be applied. AD is a truly amazing system for managing a fleet of PCs.
Wondering that myself. MDM is pretty wide spread and Mac has great centralized management with all the invasion of privacy the org admin could ask for.
They’re only stuck because they want to be. There are many ways to skin a turnip.
If I recall correctly, there was a intention in a European country to switch a department to a fork of OnlyOffice, but “there was too many bugs and incompability issues that it didn’t make it reliable”, and the employees still had access to Microsoft 365, so my bet is that some tried it and when they don’t understand it they kept using Microsoft Office.
Please if anyone else have more info please share it, I remember hearing about this from TheLinuxExperiment.
https://github.com/Euro-Office/desktop-apps
Still in development, but some packages are ready to run.
Remember, it’s not just document apps and such, it’s connection and collaboration that MS provides. Some of it is quite complex on the backend so it can look simple on the frontend.
Thank you for the context.