• CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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      There’s probably one computer at most per employee, but each employee already has a non Windows cell phone. Most servers run Linux. Then there’s Linux in a bunch of small devices as well. Windows is a small part of that pie and only getting smaller.

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      Windows Server for usage in actual servers? Those companies must be removed to the core.

      • alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Windows Server is rather common in large enterprise software. All the stuff you pray you never have to interface with

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          It sure is convenient. You get a user friendly GUI. But the stability, the resource intensity and the spyware. It’s really a removed decision to build your servers on Windows Server.

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            Yes, but some software, and it’s usually a financial application, requires a Windows Server.

            I’ve seen it more than once, as I had to set up the machine, I was dying inside, but there was just no alternative that the accounting could use.

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        It’s really common. The IT people know how to use Windows, and they need Active Directory to manage their Windows devices, so they just use Windows Server.