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Apple's chance to grow as half a billion Windows 7 PCs hit EOL:
The company's enterprise credentials continue to extend. At a recent Apple-focused enterprise IT event, we encountered opinion and statistics to reinforce this point.
The point being that support for Apple technologies has become a human resources issue, and that people entering the workshop will choose to use that company's technologies if they can.
This is prompting some of the world's most influential enterprise firms to offer that choice to their employees.
Beyond HR considerations, IBM CIO Fletcher Previn points out multiple advantages Cupertino's computers offer, not least in terms of net promoter score, user experience and the actual costs of management, upgrade and support.
[...] The positive upswell in support for Apple's systems comes as around 417,000,000 Windows 7 devices (a big chunk of all Windows PCs currently in use worldwide) are about to experience Microsoft terminating support on January 14, 2020.
It's a relatively safe assumption to think that at least some tens of thousands of these PCs could now be replaced by an iPad, or even a Mac.
Why wouldn't some of these migrate to Apple's platforms, when Microsoft's fee-based extended support package costs up to $200 per device?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by black6host on Sunday January 12 2020, @01:17AM
Well, Macs weren't part of the equation for me. Too expensive. However, I did find myself getting a new PC last year and I got it with Win 10. I have Win 7 that I could have put on it but I chose not to. So, for me, no gunpoint needed. I held off though, for a long time. Thought about going to Linux, I've been there before, but things just work for me and at this point in time I like to play games and relax. Or, make music and I've a ton of software and hardware that may or may not work on Linux and I don't care, right now, to find out if it does. I lost my privacy when I got a loyalty card for a supermarket. When I bought a Samsung phone. When I stepped outside my house. When my friend tagged me in a oic put on facebook. Win 10 is the least of my worries and for this old fool, it works.
Now for an extreme example of my lack of knowledge: The whole systemd thing kind of made it a no go for me right now as well and compatibility issues with software and hardware (not that I think Windows software running under Linux is a god given right or anything). It's not something I wish to wade through.
So, for some of us, Win 10 it is...