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Most windows laptops today come with a license key baked into the BIOS. So no need to manage licenses here.
I do not believe those are sufficient for enterprise licenses, which must be provided separately.
I'm no fan of Windows myself, but I find this a fairly bad policy. If nothing else - what's not used is not tested. And if you expect any real population of users to be using Windows machines with your products, you should have developers/PMs/QA/support interacting with your products using Windows machines. I see this as: We're saving a bit of money and making ITs life easier, and in exchange users will get a worse p…
Gitlab is essentially a website, and Microsoft Edge is just Chrome. I think there isn't any reason to test on windows anymore.
For example, we ran into a difference between Chrome on Linux vs Chrome on macOS where it turns out that on macOS, if you right-click on a link (to open a context menu) it selects the text of the link, while on Linux it does no such thing. Initially we'd tested on only one platform because we assumed they'd behave the same, and this difference resulted in buggy behavior on the untested platform.
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Gitlab is essentially a website, and Microsoft Edge is just Chrome. I think there isn't any reason to test on windows anymore.
Famous last words.
I've seen more than once a mac design use some font in a light weight that comes across almost invisible on Windows. I'm the only windows guy at our shop and "everyone has access to windows VMs to test" (lol)
Outside of that, now that Edge is on Chromium most of our edge cases seem to be Safari these days (everyone uses chrome/firefox except a couple management using Safari).
Which all in all I guess is a testament to our lack of full browser testing :)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seriously? Microsoft is not sitting idle and let them create havoc.
>a remote employee would typically be making a purchase of a laptop pre-loaded with Windows Home Edition
How hard is it for them to mandate a Windows Pro edition?
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Although not even hinted at in the doc, I personally find the tedium of buying and provisioning and monitoring licenses worse than the cost of it. I suppose you are also inviting risk in the form of an audit.
Most windows laptops today come with a license key baked into the BIOS. So no need to manage licenses here.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/...
The pretext for banning Windows is comically bad. Paying extra for Mac hardware is perfectly fine (no, encouraged!), but paying $100 or so to upgrade Windows Home to Windows Professional is prohibitively expensive? That's such a joke. I have no trouble with companies mandating one OS or the other. But when the justification for the policy is so bad it looks petty and ideological as opposed to the result of a level-he…
I'm no fan of Windows myself, but I find this a fairly bad policy. If nothing else - what's not used is not tested. And if you expect any real population of users to be using Windows machines with your products, you should have developers/PMs/QA/support interacting with your products using Windows machines. I see this as: We're saving a bit of money and making ITs life easier, and in exchange users will get a worse p…
This is being posted just a day after this tweet: https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1555324387087097856 I really wonder what it's like inside Gitlab. The product ticks all the boxes you'd want it to, but the user experience just resonates with sadness and misery.
I have, extensively, and found the user experience excellent. Still miss it now I'm using github plus a bunch of other tools.
I'm no fan of Windows myself, but I find this a fairly bad policy. If nothing else - what's not used is not tested. And if you expect any real population of users to be using Windows machines with your products, you should have developers/PMs/QA/support interacting with your products using Windows machines. I see this as: We're saving a bit of money and making ITs life easier, and in exchange users will get a worse p…
Why? Gitlab is not a Windows application per se. Either you use a browser or git on the cli.