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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by krzyk on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:05PM (#22292685)
> Apple doesn't play well with enterprises

Well, it plays too well actually. At my current job and at previous one we had a choice Mac or a Windows laptop.

Mac ones were alway much more rigid with restrictions, less hackable (e.g. Installing Linux side by side was impossible on Mac, because it broke macos somehow as a result of enterprise drive encryption).

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by TheRealDunkirk on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:14PM (#22292763)
Well, I just had to take my laptop in to work to get the firmware updated because BitLocker hiccuped, and locked me out of the machine. I'm doubting that you're going to be any safer on Windows in this regard, unless Corporate IT is NOT turning on drive encryption for Windows. (And even I would probably advocate for this particular policy.)
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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by zeusk on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:56PM (#22293823)
It wasn't a firmware update, if bitlocker detects hardware or disk config changes - it needs to be unlocked from the enterprise side. Most deployments have a self service portal so you don't have to bother IT for it.

As for installing Linux, that should be fine as long as you're not pulling company data on that - and it should be gated with whatever endpoint protection there is for Linux.

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