theregister:
Industrial giant General Electric employs 330,000 staff world wide, and can be considered one of the more conservative businesses. But yesterday, GE quietly let slip that it is standardising on iPhones and iPads and will let any GE employee who wants a Mac have one, instead of a Windows PC.
GE follows the lead of IBM, which has supplied 100,000 staff with Macs, and has been touting the lower cost of Macs in the enterprise as a result.
This is not an embarrassment to Microsoft – these kinds of flips happen often – but there can’t be many smiles on the faces of the Enterprise people in Redmond regardless.
Make sense to me.
And as prt of the momentum shift Delta Airlines switch 10,000 from Microsoft Surface to iPad Pro.
This is why Nadella’s Microsoft is wise to shoot for “cloud first, mobile first.”
Sure, they’re not selling low-margin hardware or Windows licenses… but every employee at GE has their email, collaboration, and office suite provided through an Office 365 subscription. And GE is an enormous consumer and reseller of Azure services. That’s probably a bigger chunk of profit than GE’s hardware and Windows license purchases ever were.
5% would imply that each Mac user has a reason to call the help desk every twenty years on average.
I’m all for the Mac, but that seems almost unbelievably low.
I wonder if the costs associated with Exchange Server are still the same as they were in previous decades.
Where I work is a huge corporate and a 99% Windows/Microsoft place. I got a Mac for my work and was told that IT guys hate Macs because they’re hard to provision (each one requires individual attention to setup – with PCs they just clone the disk from a master image), and also they’re hard to monitor and control. This affects things like data compliance regulations, and whether pirated software is installed by the user. Then there’s the fact that a lot of business software is weaker on a Mac. Skype for Business (aka Lync) doesn’t include recording functionality, for example. Excel 2016 only recently got full macro functionality, some two years after release. Cisco VPN apps are buggy. In summary, Macs have a long way to go until they’re as institutionally-friendly as PCs and there are some seemingly insurmountable issues there too.
I wonder if the costs associated with Exchange Server are still the same as they were in previous decades.
I wonder if the costs associated with Exchange Server are still the same as they were in previous decades.
GE & IBM both are badly in need of cost cutting and hopefully this works out as well for GE as it reportedly worked for IBM.
I’d be curious how many people just used Apple Store or calling Apple support directly, but either way it’s better than having them call internal help desk most likely.
They are EXTREMELY different whether you go Office 365 or EA. I don’t even know if there is a CALs licensing for Exchange, but almost no one does it and Microsoft is trying ti price that out of existence.
I remember someone like Dan Dilger explaining that any business which had standardized on Exchange Server would actually incur three different license fees for each seat equipped.
Boy, that comment sure took me back. I think you left out “Macs on a network are too ‘chatty’.”
Thanks, Keir. 😉
It’s likely that the cost-cutting those companies actually need can be found in redundant upper management crony executives.
I think that’s a misinterpretation of the facts there. Mathematically correct but in fact meaningless.
Possibly… but how? Elaborate?