• 4am
    51·
    11 months ago

    Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory all pushed into the cloud, Office 365 the only upgrade path, Teams the only collab software in their ecosystem.

    Linux winning the server market was the worst thing to happen to normie workstations in a generation at heavily MS shops, that cost is trickling down.

    (To be clear, I’m not against Linux, but all the pointy-hairs who need to have a Microsoft shop are going to be feeling the cost)

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
      3·
      11 months ago

      Linux winning the server market was the worst thing to happen to normie workstations in a generation at heavily MS shops, that cost is trickling down.

      What do you mean by this exactly?

      (Genuinely curious, as my goal is to have Linux Workstations be an option for our devs)

    • Nougat@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory all pushed into the cloud, Office 365 the only upgrade path, …

      This is simply not true.