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Imagine suggesting alternative operating system and mailing service provider, collaborating with IT to get further specifics that could work for you and your office and presenting that to the big man up stairs showing the improved user usage and lower costs (and even probably way more secure too) and suggest to do a trial run with a few people even offering yourself towards the trial run before a full company deal over just to give proof along side well documented research. Windows may be a standard but it’s only because we think of it as one. Can easily suggest other companies to do the same and reach out to build partnerships and maybe even build a new standard with the testing and research you find.
Anywho that’s what we would suggest
I tried that, but it's impossible at the moment.
We need a LOT of specialized enterprise software that isn't available for alternative operating systems, and depends on Office.
The alternative we had used instead of Teams was discontinued by the supplier.
I'm sure if the enshittification continues, and especially if the licenses get more expensive, the C-suite will be open for alternatives.
But that would be a multi-year migration project, and we just signed all the contracts for the next 5 years.
Hh that’s pain. We never worked that closely in a huge company only middle sized or small ones (and they ran on either older versions of Windows that stayed offline or Apple)
It's not that it's huge, it's just non-standard.
I work for a newspaper, and our IT needs to interface with the printing press, plate setters, press-specific typesetting and layouting systems, data transmitters from the press agency, the national archive, etc.
If Microsoft fucks up your data you won't be blamed. If you try to switch to Linux and something goes terribly wrong you will absolutely be nailed to the wall. This is how C-suite people think and this is why we'll be stuck with Microslop for a long time.
Ughhh we hate fucking dumb ass corpo suits =m=;;