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Because you just want stuff to work and couldn't care less about the ideology part?

Also no feature parity (it's not about Windows being "better" than Linux or the other way around, none of that matters) there are not out of the box solutions to replace some of the stuff enterprise IT relies in Windows/etc. which would mean they'd have to hire expensive vendors to recreate/migrate their workflows. The costs of figuring out how to run all of your legacy Windows software, retraining staff etc. etc. would be very significant. Why spend so much money with no clear benefits?

To be fair I'm not sure how Apple figures into this. They don't really cater to the enterprise market at al..



> Because you just want stuff to work

I think the current outage undercuts this premise.


Why? Both things seem pretty tangential. Poorly written software exists or can exist on any platform, just like the IT infrastructure wouldn't somehow automagically become robust if they just switched to Linux.




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