The hiring team kept saying they had trouble finding designers and developers because nobody wants to work on a Windows computer.
And the owner went. “So why are we forcing everyone to use windows?”
And then one department pointed fingers at another, to another, to another. Apparently a decade ago, some IT dude got Microsoft kickbacks and left the company. The next month, the whole “Microsoft” rule faded away and now my department is running Linux laptops, the designers and devs have their macs, and the accountants are using windows.
Yeah, the guy in my story was to be a developer as well. Clearly it’s way more confortable to work on Linux. The justification in my company is that the security protocols are already built for Windows so they don’t want to redo the job on Linux. Handling to OS’ would increase their work load.
There’s a famous story at my job about this.
The hiring team kept saying they had trouble finding designers and developers because nobody wants to work on a Windows computer.
And the owner went. “So why are we forcing everyone to use windows?”
And then one department pointed fingers at another, to another, to another. Apparently a decade ago, some IT dude got Microsoft kickbacks and left the company. The next month, the whole “Microsoft” rule faded away and now my department is running Linux laptops, the designers and devs have their macs, and the accountants are using windows.
Yeah, the guy in my story was to be a developer as well. Clearly it’s way more confortable to work on Linux. The justification in my company is that the security protocols are already built for Windows so they don’t want to redo the job on Linux. Handling to OS’ would increase their work load.