Posted on 07/05/2014 11:06:48 AM PDT by 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.
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Back in the ‘80s I watched MS and IBM working to get PCs to talk to the mainframes and while Apple considered the whole idea beneath them. They’re on the outside looking in by choice.
How is that even possible ? :p
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Common sense. I didn’t say that the companies I’ve worked for didn’t get viruses.
Too bad we cannot discuss technology without it devolving to the “you’re a fag” argument.
Damn, my check was late this month.
You don't really believe this do you?
MS doesn't have to pay shills, they're in ever business I've worked or consulted for.
Now for Apple paying hipsters, I could buy that, remember their lame commercial where the IBM guy was in a suit and the hipster doofus was wearing whatever hipster doofii wear.
To me, a computer is a tool, to the hipster doofii crowd it's a statement!
Typical non sequitur dennisw response.
The first two words of my statement were "Mac users"...
Now address the root cause of your (self-documented) maniacal hatred of those who merely choose to use different equipment than you do.
I have found Macs to be very reliable. Typing this on a Mac Mini Server 2010, no problems. My wife uses a Macbook 2006 daily, eight years no problems. Younger daughter has a Macbook 2007, failed last year after she spilled a drink into the keyboard - I replaced the keyboard and it’s fine now. She also has a MacAir, brother-in-law has a MacAir, they’re good. Another daughter has a MacBook2007 and a newer iMac. With about a dozen Macs from 1 to 8 years old in the immediate family only one MacBook Pro had a problem where a graphics chip from a supplier went bad and Apple replaced it free under warranty. Pretty good track record for quality. One of the reasons I gave up on my failure prone PCs running Windows (although I have Windows on a partition in my Mac Mini).
I haven’t had a PC or Laptop die in less than 6 years for at least the last 12 years. In fact I have at least 3 in service at home that are over 6 years old with no issues. Maybe you are buying crap hardware?
FWIW I have 2 desktops, 4 notebooks and 1 netbook that I bought for less money than I would have spent on any two apple products.
And that's a good reason to run Time Machine in the background on your Mac. Automatically backs up changes every hour. So you could potentially lose only emails generated since the last backup within up to an hour. That's if you don't have them instantly captured to a cloud, so no emails would be lost. When I clone a new drive I temporarily disable email until the drive shows its working out (as in applying big OS or software changes). If okay, the old drive becomes the new fallback drive. Always good to have a fallback drive that you can restore latest files from Time Machine backups, just in case.
Have had no drive failures on my Macs, although I've lost about five on my Windows PCs over the last ten years, curious thing.
I used to build my own electronic gear -- and I built a few hot rods, too.
Now, aside from the restoration I'm doing on the Formula "S" Barracuda I ordered set up for road racing in 1965, I buy cars that will make the 22 mile round trip to town on country roads in comfort and with good mileage and reliabilty. IOW, mainly, I choose to be a "car user", nowadays.
As I pointed out to dennisw, the first two words in my comment were, "Mac users" (not "Mac hobbyists")...
Lousy offer. Who’s gonna put up their own money for something when the business gets the best years of it?
And no control group: did the PC users get to take their machines home? Nope. Nobody wanted those after 2 years either.
So, we have something in common. I restored a 70 Vette roadster, it was perfect for 1970 standards. Which was the problem, perfect as it was, normal cars ran rings around it comfort wise and those pathetic bumpers wouldn’t stop a 1/2mph crash without destroying the glass. If you got t-boned, there weren’t any door beams to protect you. I saw a 69 Road Runner t-boned at 45mph and it killed the driver, imagine if you only had fiberglass to protect you?
It was fun to drive and sexy looking
65 Cuda, what engine are you using? I’m assuming you’re going to upgrade the brakes; going still going with the leaf springs?
This is as much of a fantasy as finding Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.
Funny thing is: once Apple introduced the iPhone & iPad, businesses couldn’t stop people from buying their own mobile devices (at substantial personal cost, no assistance at all from business) and bringing them into the workplace for business use.
I read the whole thread, the only thing even close to hatred was someone who said he couldn’t use a MAC because he was heterosexual.
Show me the hate?
The price is the same for equivalent hardware. Period.
They can make personal calls but were told not to make business calls as no one knew how secure the phone was although Apple devices tend to be secure and also upgrade the IOS when a new one comes out. If they get caught on the wireless, they would rue the day they did that although they might get a slap on the wrist if they snitch off where they got the wireless pass phrase.
The greatest thing I ever saw was monitoring the firewall logs and one guy would constantly download files with the name like "she male". About five of us went up to see what he looked like. He was a director, and a freak. We left a page from the log on his desk to see if he had a clue, nope, still downloaded trans-porn, at least he didn't complain about IT or his habits would have come out.
All my home PC's (six of them across the family) are home-built using components I researched and selected. The newest PC being an 8 core AMD FX-8350 with 32gb of ram. Two are my kids gaming machines (both AMD 8320's) with high-end graphic cards and SSD's.
The remaining three machines are 2 Intel Core 2 Quads running at 2.4ghz (both at least 7 years old< used to run some things around the house and my amateur radio station, and the last is an Intel i5 that's at least 5 years old.
Not a single component failure of any of them.
If you build something to last -- it will. When you use commodity parts (junk) like Dell, HP, Gateway, Asus, Lenovo, etc.. you can bet they're not going to last.
>>I have found that any MS PC has a shelf-life of about 18-24 months before key components start to fail.
With crap components, maybe. I have a PC next to the iMac I’m typing on now that was built in very early 2003 and is still running strong. Well, its a bit on the slow side and I should have done a wipe and reinstall several times in the last half decade and didn’t, but I run old versions of Illustrator and Photoshop on it, which is all I need for those areas of use. About the only problem I’ve had with PC components is hard drives and those fit into Macs and PCs.
I now use Macs mostly but if you put care into building a good PC, it will last.
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