The Reign Of Windows At Work 'Is Coming To An End' And Macs Are Rising Fast

Business Insider ^ | 07/05/2014 | Julie Bort

[SeekAndFind]

It's been clear for some time that the iPad has taken the enterprise by storm as employees tote it to work and companies buy fleets of them. But Apple's PC, the Mac, has never been as dominant in the workplace, until now, according to new research from long-time Microsoft rival, VMware.

VMware queried 376 IT professionals and found that they are increasingly being asked to buy and/or support Macs in the enterprise by employees who want Macs, not Windows machines.

"Microsoft Windows has dominated enterprise desktops for close to three decades but it appears its reign is coming to an end. As BYOPC ["Bring Your Own PC"] and BYOD [Bring Your Own Device] continue to transform the enterprise, Macs have become a popular and preferred option compared to Windows PCs," says Erik Frieberg, VP of Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware, in the report.

[KGeorge]

I’m just 1 person (& very hard on my computers. Or my dog, Mia, is), but my first 2 Compaqs barely made it to 2 & were sent back for repair frequently (2-3 times a year). I’ve had 3 Macs since 2004; a G4, Powerbook, & MacBook Pro. The G4 motherboard supposedly died. The Powerbook needs a part in the hinge replaced (that illuminates the screen) but will sort of work with a cable to another monitor (user incompetence on the “sort of”). The MBP will be 3 in October. The only issue I’ve had has been power cords on the G4 & this one.

I find it most peculiar that DH prefers his Lenovo (Windows8) over my Mac. It’s slow, it’s abrasive & annoying. I’d rather do without.
I guess it’s just what you’re used to.

Oh & I have a little Lenovo S10 that has a virus, so not working. Cute, convenient, utterly worthless. I got tired of struggling with viruses, constantly.

[Cronos]

I can vouch for that, but they are currently only about 1%, I doubt they will grow more than 3%

[coon2000]

I thought Autodesk had most of their software running natively in OS X. I saw a demonstration of Autocad and Maya, I thought it was native. Is that not the case?

[Logical me]

But the mac’s HD died after 3 yrs.

Your Mac didn't die, the HD did. Stick a new one in and your good to go again. And if you had used a second HD and made a bootable clone and updated frequently it is easy to transfer the entire system to your new HD that I assume as HD1. My Mac has 4 internal drives with two cloned bootable as backup. Almost never had any failure. Only problem is unless you copy your emails and bookmarks to a flash drive you would loose current emails from time of crash to current date.

[PastorBooks]

“My guess is that they will upgrade the cad with time because it isn’t that big a leap and it will make Blender much more powerful and open to acceptance.”

It makes sense that, eventually, Blender will have real CAD features. I’m amazed you can use it for 3d printing!

I’ve tried to learn Blender several times before. That interface is something else.

[AppyPappy]

I can’t use a Mac. I’m a heterosexual.

[AppyPappy]

Macs should be more reliable. A $2500 Mac is as reliable as a $2500 Windows box.

People just don’t buy $2500 Windows boxes

[coon2000]

Why would you pay $2,500 for a Mac?

[AppyPappy]

Because my daughter wanted one for college. If I had been smart, I would have waited until she started to take graphic design classes before I bought it. But she has a mother.....

We pay $2500 for our Macs at work to do software development.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-ME294LL-15-4-Inch-Display/dp/B0096VD85I

[stinkerpot65]

Most new software written as web apps, anyway. Pretty soon all you’ll need is a browser and you can take your pick - windows, apple, Linux, etc ...

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I thought Autodesk had most of their software running natively in OS X. I saw a demonstration of Autocad and Maya, I thought it was native. Is that not the case?

Issue: You want to know if you can run Autodesk® Revit® on an Apple® computer using Apple Boot Camp software.

Solution: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 & 2011, Revit MEP 2010 & 2011, and Revit Structure 2010 & 2011 are supported running on a Windows partition of an Apple computer using Boot Camp to manage a dual OS configuration. Boot Camp is a utility provided with the Apple OS X v10.5 operating system (aka “Leopard”) that enables you to create a separate hard drive partition (on Intel-based Apple computers) on which you can install a Microsoft Windows OS. Boot Camp allows you to specify which operating system to boot when starting the computer. If you start the computer in Windows you can install and run Windows applications at native speeds. Note: Boot Camp does not include a Windows OS. You must purchase the Windows Operating System software separately.

Yes, the programs run ok (native speed) but you are running windows piggybacked onto the Apple system. You spend more money to buy the apple than you would an industrial strength PC desktop. Seems kind of nutty to me. Sort of like voting for a Rino instead of a Democrat or Democrat instead of a Rino, nutty.

[coon2000]

I looked at this further as I saw a Mac Pro demo and was pretty sure it was native and it turns out it was. You are looking at older software:

AutoCAD for Mac 2014 Minimum System Requirements
Apple® Mac® OS® X v10.9.0 or later (Mavericks), OS X v10.8.0 or later (Mountain Lion) with 64-bit Intel processor
Apple Mac Pro® 4,1 or later(Mac Pro® 5,1 or later recommended); MacBook® Pro 5,1 or later (MacBook Pro 10,1 with Retina Display or later recommended); iMac® 8.1 or later (iMac 11.1 or later recommended); Mac® mini 3.1 or later (Mac mini 4.1 or later recommended); MacBook Air® 2.1 or later; MacBook® 5.1 or later (MacBook 7.1 or later recommended)
3 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended)

I saw it demo’ed on a Mac Pro which was as industrial as you can get.

[DaxtonBrown]

There are measurement features. I have been inputting my 67 Camaro so I can eventually make parts.

It took me 6 dedicated months to learn it. But now i can do everything from animated political ads to cad. And it is free, so the price is favorable compared to Autocad.

[Lx]

I know people like to bag on Windows 8 but it is not that bad and 8.1 is better and as good as 7.
Supporting Windows 7 and server 2003 and 2008, I have yet to have a machine lock up or blue screen and we’re talking over 400 servers. I have had a few hardware failures but that’s due to HP and Dell and not MS. Comparing MS (software company & Apple who is a hardware and software company is apples to oranges).

Now we’re looking to go to 2012.

In over twenty years of IT, I have yet to see a MAC in the business world.

[Lx]

"Microsoft Windows has dominated enterprise desktops for close to three decades but it appears its reign is coming to an end. As BYOPC ["Bring Your Own PC"] and BYOD [Bring Your Own Device] continue to transform the enterprise, Macs have become a popular and preferred option compared to Windows PCs," says Erik Frieberg, VP of Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware, in the report.,

This is absolute BS. What IT department is going to allow an employee to bring in their PC? How are they to know that the machine is patched, has the correct virus version installed and would let a foreign machine join the domain. Joining a PC to AD is a two step process, to do the same with a MAC requires a lot of hurdles to jump through. What about malware? I'm sure in this author's world you can just hook up a MAC to the network and everything is peachy; it is not.

I'm sure my IT department would love to have to add another device to support. It was bad enough when the users wanted us to supply them with Iphones, since they're issued phones to I don't know, make phone calls and be available when on call. You can do that with any phone. I told the idiot to do a cost benefit analysis and that was the last I heard of it.

[Swordmaker]

Are Windows PCs in danger of being replaced in the Enterprise office sphere by Macs? Some think so. . . PING!

Apple Macs in Business Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[saminfl]

Last year I had an old windows machine running Vista. I used it as my primary computer and to read my CAC card to check my work email. It got slower and slower, so last March I decided to get a new computer. I took one look at the Windows 8 format and said, "No thanks." We were in Birmingham where my wife was being treated for leukemia so I went to the Apple store there and paid nearly $1600 for a new MacBook Pro.

Today, that MacBook is for sale on EBay with about seven hours left to go and the high bid is less than $700.

The first problem with the MacBook Pro was that it was a hassle getting it to recognize my CAC card reader. Then I got tired of guessing whether I could just touch the mouse pad or had to push the center so it would click. I personally thought the thing was a hassle to use.

I finally bought a new Windows machine from Amazon for a little over $300 and it runs Windows 7. The OS recognized my CAC card reader without me having to do anything but plug it in. When this computer dies or gets slow I can just throw it away and find another cheap Windows machine.

[PastorBooks]

“It took me 6 dedicated months to learn it.”

Wow! I knew Blender was complex but six months is a huge learning curve. I did not know that Blender has measurement capability. I will take another look at it.

I spent two months learning Emacs, have used it for two years, and still have only scratched a fraction of its potential. There is some software out there that is worth taking on a massive learning curve.

[hugorand]

I’m a software engineer for 20+ years working with Java and open source apps and in the cloud, and I can work in Win 7 (still available) or MAC just fine. MAC is less supportive of the latest versions of Java as well.

[TexasGator]

“If enterprises were flocking to Macs big sales would also have been seen in Q1 2014, when Microsoft ended support of Windows XP and companies rushed to upgrade their PCs.”

“Apple sold 1.5 million Macs that quarter, Gartner said, down almost 4% from the year-prior quarter and accounting for about 10% of the overall PC market.”