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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 12 2020, @01:58AM (1 child)
Pretty much, it even includes a Windoze-like registry that controls a lot of operation. SystemD is an exercise in minimalism in comparison.
At least they own it. I wonder which parts of their Unices they will kill off. Keep the Linux kernel, or the AIX kernel? Keep SystemD or the ODM?
Linux isn't lost yet. And aren't a lot of us old-timers used to fighting for Linux in the 90s?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 12 2020, @10:33PM
It hasn't lost, but it's sitting in its corner reeling and bleeding because it's gone back to the old days where people who know it have to spend 4 hours getting even a basic installation to work through fiddling. With modern Linux installs you're wasting so much time fiddling just for basic functionality that it's not worth the hassle anymore unless you're paid to fiddle with it all day.
Jews ruined it.