and then something like COVID happens and they change fast.

expanding your vpn to support more employees working from home is much easier than replacing hundreds of thousands of machines, all of the windows-only software that runs on those machines, training all of your employees on a new operating system, cancelling all of your existing contracts... you get the point.

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homarp 4 hours ago | parent [-]

well, it happened with Teams meetings replacing fancy CISCO equipments.

It happened with all the vpn+shared drives buried to just use SPO.

different experience,I guess.

Did your employees got trained? or just sent the link to 3 'online trainings'?

Managers manage to switch to Mac seamlessly. I am sure the rest will follow with cheaper macs now available. And now, with 'office on the web', you can use basic office everywhere. (even on Debian)

	▲	john_strinlai 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>And now, with 'office on the web', you can use basic office everywhere. (even on Debian) office is a tiny, almost negligible, piece of the puzzle. quickbooks, solidworks and other cad software, bespoke software, security software, user management, permissions management (replacing active directory), contractual obligations, the millions of dollars required in implementation, the millions more dollars required for increased user support, and so on... but, again, just to reiterate: i am disputing that windows is in "significant danger" today.