pogue.blogs.nytimes.com — The answer is: they don't. Corporations avoid Mac's not because they are hopelessly naive but for legitimate business reasons including volume discounts offered by PC makers, the need for standardization and expense of retraining the workforce. So don't blame your IT guru for corporate anti-mac policies, he's just following orders from the man.
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onlyshawnAug 18, 2006
or, if you'd like to bring up collective nouns:<a class="user" href="http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/collectivenoun.htm">http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/collectivenoun.htm</a>"if the members of said group act as a unit, you use singular pronouns and verbs (those with an -s)"
gabbagabbaheyAug 18, 2006
@regeyaCan I get one of those secretaries with a good 'filling' system?
wooismAug 18, 2006
Innacurate. Learn to use proper grammar.
zerompAug 18, 2006
Wow danielwsmithee can get an iMac rather than a dell for only about $86.20 more per unit and it has 50% of the processor speed! Neat. Not to mention slot loading "SuperDrive" - that sounds trendy and kewlxors!If you bought 700 of these per year - that's only $60,000.00 more you'd pay for the iMac.Supposing you did this for all ~3000 of your employees - then you've only paid a quarter of a million dollars more for the iMacs... just be sure that you can get all the software you'll need to run on the mac without windows XP / boot camp installed. Yes I know how the whole "boot camp is the kewlies!" argument makes Mac users feel like now they have solved their compatibility issues - but if this is the case, lets tack on another 3000 windows XP licenses to that quarter of a million dollars and see how appealing it looks now.Go away.
ziadozAug 18, 2006
Windows XP doesn't crash, stop pretending Windows XP is Windows ME. Mac OS X does crash by the way. I use it regularly at work, and its no more stable than Windows XP at all.
udahlenAug 19, 2006
In the 90's I was an IT Manager at at medium sized company. In those days, we had several different flavours of Unix (Sun, IBM, DEC, HP) and Microsoft Windows. It was a challange to integrate that environment and make mail, printing, storage work the same across platforms, but it was certainly possible and quite fun. Today, integrating Windows and OS X is very easy compared to that, but many IT organizations are extremely lazy and knows only Windows, so they invent arguments against anything non-Microsoft. I can understand the reluctance if you are a very large company and rely on Windows specific administration tools, but for any company smaller that 200 users or so, it shouldn't be a problem. On the contrary, it should be a fun challange. In the long run, it's educating and interesting and fun.
vandilAug 19, 2006
I am the sysadmin at my workplace (a newspaper). We deploy Macs for the vital roles of pagination, ad creation, and image/photo processing. All other roles (i.e. writing news stories, management_via_MS_Office, etc. are done with Windows PCs.Why? Quite simply: at the end of the night, the paper MUST come out. No worms, viruses, or other 0-day nonsense will ever stop our Macs from producing a product.However, I thank Microsoft for providing value for my job. Quite simply, the foibles of supporting Microsoft Software will keep me employed for years to come.
johngaultAug 20, 2006
The reason we favor windows/IBM over any other OS/platform is simply IBM won out years ago as the system of choice. The IBM PC because of compatibility and price drew hordes of people from the apple // , TRS-80, Commodore PET etc... Simply put, business looked at the bottom line- cost. While upgrading over the years, we never 'jumped platform'. there was no reason to do so. the parts were cheap, and upgrading a few desktops was easier and cheaper than replacing all pc's.As time went on, Windows became a staple as people could not run DOS efficiently. The learning curve was faster, and we could hire practically anyone to operate the machinery.If apple won the PC wars of the 80's we would all be apple OSx users now. But IBM won.In my opinion, if APPLE wasn't proprietary ion the 80's it would have won the PC wars.But the IBM It was not proprietary and therefore the IBM evolved faster, there were more people to support it(by learning it either @ home (it was cheaper) or in school (apple lost its flavor in the school over time both because IBM became the standard and it was cheaper) and there are/were more applications available. For us it was that simple. I can go Linux /or Apple, but I cannot find many qualified person(s) to maintain it, and I do not want to retrain every person who gets a job here. The local schools churn out "windows users". They don't offer mac or Linux courses.In our business we interface these PCs to everything, and the only platform supported is windows or IBM DOS. From machine controls to data loggers, they are all on windows stations, because the software/hardware vendor requires it. Therefore Like it or not all other OS are out. I don't not run windows for "Job security" or any other reason.
jkaechlerFeb 3, 2007
Here is why I hate macs............I work for a local ISP/ Cable Modem provider.At least once a week i get a call to go out on a mac, and almost every time there is no way i can fix it.Admittedly, macs don't break quite as often as a Win-Tel, but when they do, you better hold on to your pants.No parts are available for them, installing hardware is a bitch, and apple just says "bring it into a apple store and we will take care of you". Hello BOZOS! I don't live in San Francisco where there is a mac store across from every Starbucks on every corner. I live in a middle size town of 100,000 and the closest Apple store is 1.5 hours drive from here. Also, how many of you have ever tried to do hardware work on a mac. I replaced a CD-ROM in an emac last week, and it was an absolute nightmare to get the damn thing open. The machine weighs a ton, and has six million screws holding it together. Why can't Apple design their machines to be easily maintained? Several weeks ago another customer had a nice little Intel mac mini. The Ethernet and the usb both failed at the same time. Apple still has not returned her emails or phone calls, and there is no telling what they are going to do.I realize that digg is overrun with Apple zombies, but even you must realize that macs do break. they are not immune as everyone seems to think. plus, the vast majority of users have grown up, technology speaking, with windows. they cant wrap their brains around osx. even though osx seems to modeled after candy wrappers and fisher price baby toys.Face it, Apple has always been and will always be a very small percentage of the users.because business software is written for and runs very well on windows.because a properly maintained windows machine is just as robust and far more capable than an osx system.because windows based systems don't have to pay the "Apple Tax" premium price.but mostly because it pisses off all you hordes of drooling apple fan-boys, and we real computer enthusiasts find that hugely funny!!!
nubalanceJun 6, 2008
I wasn't trying to compare Apple with Microsoft. Do you really think Apple needs you to stick up for them anyway? You are proof that their marketing dollars are working really well.