Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
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Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#2I don't think the security requirements are unreasonable, and actually make a lot of sense. The issue is a lot of corporations that store your personal data are just insecure and careless. While they could be spending the money you give them on IT upgrades, a lot of times they are upgrading Yachts and their mistresses.
The thing I don't like is that even with better hardware, Windows will still find ways to enable telemetry and then exploits to that data. So, even once you upgrade your hardware, attackers will still find a way in thanks to Microsoft.
Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#3windows 10 will be here at least for another 4 years, by that point those workstations will likely be upgraded
Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#4windows 10 will be here at least for another 4 years, by that point those workstations will likely be upgraded
LTSC is our friend...
Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#5I saw "Red Hat" on the login screen of a retail cash register a few years ago. If Ubuntu is ready and able to be installed on old workstations with Win 10 that are otherwise about to lose security updates, that could be millions of dollars cheaper than replacing 10,000+ Dells just to get Win 11. And there are still enterprises around that financially reward bean counters that successfully cut costs to increase profitability. So does this create an opening for enterprise Linux?
At the Windows-centric companies I've worked for it was mostly just running Outlook that was the thing we all absolutely had to do every day, with only occasional use of Word.
So many businesses now have replaced Windows native business apps with either web based ones or (less and less) Java apps. Both work on Linux.
Question: How good is Thunderbird nowadays as an alternative to Outlook, from a business decision maker perspective? (Or is there better than Thunderbird for businesses deeply entrenched in Outlook?)
Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
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#8It is anyway the next Windows ME/Vista/Windows 8.
Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#9windows 10 will be here at least for another 4 years, by that point those workstations will likely be upgraded
Do we still need to upgrade every x years, in my opinion we've reached quite a plateau. E.g. my 4 year old phone is still fast enough.
Mandating an upgrade by obsoleting the OS is going to add to our environmental disaster, the newest IPCC report says probably +1.5 C more by 2040 at current trajectories. I wish influential environmentalists would start shaming Microsoft.
Re: Windows 11: Half of enterprise workstations don't meet the system requirements
#10windows 10 will be here at least for another 4 years, by that point those workstations will likely be upgraded
Do we still need to upgrade every x years, in my opinion we've reached quite a plateau. E.g. my 4 year old phone is still fast enough. Mandating an upgrade by obsoleting the OS is going to add to our environmental disaster, the newest IPCC report says probably +1.5 C more by 2040 at current trajectories. I wish influential environmentalists would start shaming Microsoft.
Do we need to? No. Does every large and most small organizations I know do it anyway? Absolutely.