At school we were tought how to work with it (my teacher was so outdated, he barely knew what Linux was) but I can't find any good reason to use it instead of Linux

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Every single business running Windows computers (which is about all of them) will have an Active Directory running on Windows.

Every company I worked for only ever had a handful of Linux servers and the majority of Windows servers.

Microsoft revenue generated $26.7 billion in one quarter from its Licensing, and even though a lot of it was through cloud, a lot of it also came through self hosted Windows servers.

You live in a bubble if you think nobody is using Windows server.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Agreed. Most orgs don't have a serious demand for their computers anyway just web clients to SaaS products. So Chromebooks and Google suite. Windows and cloud AD and Office 365. All Mac. Honestly work find with the biggest goal being lowest hurdle for support.

Windows had that locked down especially with vendors support zero config support where they will ship a laptop ready to go.

It's always super painful where those orgs then want to do anything serious on a server, cause yeah none of what I said is optimized for a decent server experience.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I've never worried in a shop that uses Windows s screen. That's insane.

[–] Tameraikou@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Only if they have local infrastructure, a lot of businesses are just using m365 and joining to their MS tenancy.

Although I will say, the use of Windows servers are due to supporting applications that are written for MS and not Linux or BSD.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 months ago

Is this a real question? It's very obvious you don't work in IT.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

My company uses it for some of our legacy on-prem hosting, but a lot of that is being actively decommissioned.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Yes, we basically only use Windows servers at our company (except some people in our team)

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

Yes, and it's terrible.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah my company only has Windows servers, I'm sure other small and mid sized businesses are the same

[–] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

IIS. So so so much IIS.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I've seen a lot of it for two things.

First being sqlserver, though that's been able to run on linux for a long time now, there's a bunch of features not supported but not a deal breaker for a lot of people, I haven't encountered ssis or ssas in years for example.

Second being Internet Information Services (IIS), which some people really seem to like.

Wouldn't be surprised if active directory required a windows machine either, definitely a bunch of cases I'm not considering or aware of but I'm no sysadmin.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

At my previous job, all developers were given desktops running windows server. It was horrible but I spent 95% of my time in a Linux vm so I got by while I was there.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Pretty much any company that has their own IT team but is not an IT company, is most likely using Windows infrastructure.

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I think some still use it for game servers