ProdigalFrogA large state corporation in Brazil is currently trailing 800 Linux PC's. If successful, it will deploy and replace 22k Windows PC's, comparable to the migration happening in Germany.
Possibly linuxI keep seeing people say they will they move to Linux instead of Windows 11. I wonder what will happen to the market share.
Worse case we could see developers becoming harassed by people demanding features
LeFantomeHistory tells us that 85% of these people will move to Windows 11 despite what they say.
There is a real opportunity here for companies though.
Move employees to Office 365 online today ( see how many truly need the desktop apps )
Start moving early adopters to Linux ( still using Office 365 online )
Work to identify and replace any other software that is Windows only
When Windows 10 goes end-of-support, move everybody else to Linux
The few that really need Excel desktop could probably run it in a VM or via a virtual desktop ( thin client ).
You could probably stop there. Honestly, I doubt it would even bother Microsoft that much. Office and Azure is the business now.
From there, you could try to advance further if you want.
Move early adopters off Office 365
Drop Office 365
Honestly though, for many companies, you could almost get Office 365 for free just be combining it with your Azure spend and getting a discount.
If its just one app it could just ran by something like kasm and remotely controlled by the end users.
Office365 is awful. Use Gsuite if anything.
Brownie points if you use Nextcloud
Google workspace has a fraction of the functionality. At a base level they’re relatively comparable. But once you go into more advanced functionality and security, 365 is a landslide better.
Office365 is slow and broken. I don’t really know what your talking about
Claims without facts, got it. UI can be slow, sure. Mostly admin side. Outlook, excel, word, etc all work fine.
I can only speak from experience. It is probably subjective.
In terms of the basic office utilities like text editor, spreadsheets and so on, Google is a good contender. But Google Workspace isn’t even close to the functionality IT admins have with Microsoft Defender, Intune, Entra, Purview, and so on.
There’s a lot more going on at the administration side than just the user’s experience, that could make it less ideal to move to Linux.
I’m saying this as someone who hates both Microsoft and Google.
I’m work in IT as a support specialist that manages computers for about 30-40 people and we don’t even use those tools like Defender, Intune, etc. We can definitely make the switch from Windows to Linux. It’s not impossible, especially when you have someone in your company who knows enough on how to self-host and use Linux efficiently.
Companies that use Windows and Azure are locked into it by their use of things like AD, Intune, Exchange, OneCloud, SharePoint etc., on the infrastructure and ops administrative side, not necessarily by Office365. It’s almost impossible to make a clean break from all that for any company past a certain size.
My boss and I are working on moving to Coreboot on our machines. We have a bunch of older computers that support it (e.g. Dell Optiplex 9020/9010/7020/7010), they all support Coreboot/Libreboot firmware so not only will we save on hardware costs, we are moving towards using Proxmox VE with Kicksecure on all of our employees computers.
I also want to setup Nextcloud for file storing and self hosting for OnlyOffice. We can also move toward Bitwarden, we unfortunately still are using LastPass. I would also like to replace our routers/switches with those that can run on OpenWRT.
We only have about at most 30-40 computers total operating total at both of our locations. I figure why not? My boss is giving me a chance to apply these skills and I’m hoping we can just start moving away from anything that requires a subscription. We can save so much money.
History tells us that 85% of these people will move to Windows 11 despite what they say.
The interesting rub this time is the hardware. There’s tons of still powerful and useful CPU’s in use today that don’t support Windows 11’s TPM 2.0, so I wonder if that will push a few more people to Linux than when Windows 7 was EOL.
Honestly they will prob release a slimmed down W11, call it W12 and people will migrate to that. I do plan on moving to Linux before EOL for W10.