Windows is in decline says outgoing Jamf CEO
appleinsider.com
Dean Hager of Apple device management firm Jamf predicts Windows will no longer be the dominant enterprise platform, and Apple will take its place.
  • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He’s wrong about several points. He states that Apple dominates the mobile space, but it’s not even close. Android owns almost 71% of the market while Apple has about 29%.

    Windows is definitely positioned to be replaced in the enterprise, but it would much more likely be Linux than MacOS. Many enterprises already run Linux and/or Windows servers and with the only thing keeping most desktops on Windows is Office…which Microsoft has been pushing to the web, although unsuccessfully.

    I have heard about the death of Windows in corporations for 20+ years. Windows 11 is garbage, but I’m not sure it’s enough to get companies to switch.

    MacOS only is used in some Silicon Valley companies, but that’s a bubble. You’d be hard pressed to find it used in the rest of the business world anywhere.

    • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Silicon Valley has run on Macs for years and years. I think it’s weird too, but there it is.

      • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It’s not too weird when you consider that macOS is a UNIX operating system. So you get many of the advantages of Linux/Unix through the terminal, with better app compatibility.

        I’ve also heard macs are cheaper to maintain en masse than windows because of simpler tooling/group policy, which would be another a big reason it’s everywhere in tech.

        • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          XNU is an abbreviation of X is Not Unix. MacOS borrows a lot from the Unix world, but itself is not actually a form of UNIX.