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Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM by drevil-v2 on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:12AM (#25384139)
I have seen that business orgs within an enterprise with their own P/L usually end up doing an end-run around IT and just buy MacBooks from suppliers or directly from Apple.

Funnily enough, both times I saw this happen (at a large bank and later at a utility company) the only thing we needed from IT was network access and a Windows VM license so that we could run the god awful company payroll app that required IE11 to work. Once a week dozens of very highly paid devs and SREs would boot up a Windows SOE VM, login to the domain, start the payroll app, enter in five rows of data and shutdown. What a waste of time and money.

Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM by rkangel on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:57AM (#25384763)
We kind of have this setup for those who want Linux as their desktop OS, it's provided by our IT and it's great.

If you want a Linux workstation, IT will provision you a Windows VM. It has email, Office, and our payroll app. With most stuff on Teams you can ignore it most of the time and get on with your work. IT's happy, we're happy.

Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM by emteycz on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:31AM (#25384245)
Same experience with the payroll app here!