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posted by janrinok on Saturday January 11 2020, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the TCO dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday January 12 2020, @10:55AM

    by driverless (4770) on Sunday January 12 2020, @10:55AM (#942479)

    I've actually moved several of my friends&family support network to Ubuntu. I gave them the choice of Windows 10 and Ubuntu and they said they wanted to stay with Windows, so could I install the Ubuntu thing for them please.

    I'm not making that up.

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