Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations

Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by loudmax on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:40AM (#20479018)

I wish I were in that bubble. At the company I work, Windows desktops are the standard and the workplace uses a product called Vidyo for video conferencing. Vidyo doesn't run on any open source desktop... or maybe it does, but I've given up trying.

Most corporate offices today are deeply locked into MS Office. They could theoretically switch to a different office suite, but nothing else is fully compatible with MS's proprietary formats. More to the point, no other company is putting serious resources into developing a more appealing product. Google's effort seems half-hearted and Adobe never seems to have bothered.

In some ways the current situation feels like a regression to the 90's and early 2000's.

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Re:Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations by lewaldman on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:43PM (#20480819)

This is one of that situations where I'm as radical as it can get.

I simply DON'T work for companies that don't let me use a proper *nix based OS on my work computer.

I'm being a MUCH happier human being since I started to use this policy on the early 2000's! =)

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