Strike a very sensitive nerve?
Let me clue you in on something. IT exists solely to support a business. When you have 16,000 users standardization is key. Yet because you are a fanboy, we should bow down to your needs, well, because???
IT has it’s share of problems, too. I used to get staff who wanted the latest and greatest whatever, never mind the business need, they wanted it. I tell everyone of these folks that want to put a business on the bleeding edge of technology to come back with a cost benefit analysis. Not one has.
If there was a MAC that did something that a PC didn’t and was a business need, we’d be all over it.
So support the business. Are you incapable of networking Windows, Windows Server, OS X, OS X Server and Linux in the same environment? Your business users must love you.
It exists to make sure the IT department exists.
I am not a fan boy I am 75 years old and have seen what microsoft and the IT departments have passed off on the world.