It seems so aimed at the consumer market, with everything set up to help with integrating with Apple services.
But what about the enterprise features? It is very common for companies to be running Active Directory networks, why do macs work so hard not to fit in? Why not have some kind of AD support for mapping print queues, network drives that kind of thing? Maybe respecting password policies? Authentication via Azure AD would be really helpful too. But the real killer is forwards/ backwards compatibility. Enterprises have long software life cycles which are respected by Windows. You can run VB6 applications from 1999 on Windows 10.
I get so many service desk issues for macs that are resolved by a reboot, and why don't they reboot?.. because they worry that the updates will take 20 minutes.
I hate MacOS. It causes me so much more aggravation than my main Windows user base. I'm currently having to work on printer deployments and MDM's (solved problems on Windows) just so marketing people can look cool in meetings.
I just gave one of them a Windows laptop to try and they noted how nice the PC Office apps are, and how fast their computer was (processor being 2 gen ahead of the current macbook pro)
We have one coder who still uses mac (he supports some old desktop apps that incidentally are all broken by Catalina), and since he mainly targets Linux nowadays he is currently looking at moving to Windows and WSL.
Great home computers, great for individuals, terrible for enterprise use.
Sound like your problems are actually caused by Active Directory being shit and intentionally trying to lock out non-microsoft operating systems. Let this be a lesson to any future administrators. If you have Mac and Linux users, NEVER chose AD.
My experience is that users like to have their network drives and printers mapped for them. They like to not have to think about updates. Business users want consistency. Windows gives them that.
If anyone really cared about users they wouldn’t forcibly reboot their desktops in the middle of the day to install updates, which is par for the course in every large organisation I’ve worked in.
This should be popular
It seems so aimed at the consumer market, with everything set up to help with integrating with Apple services.
But what about the enterprise features? It is very common for companies to be running Active Directory networks, why do macs work so hard not to fit in? Why not have some kind of AD support for mapping print queues, network drives that kind of thing? Maybe respecting password policies? Authentication via Azure AD would be really helpful too. But the real killer is forwards/ backwards compatibility. Enterprises have long software life cycles which are respected by Windows. You can run VB6 applications from 1999 on Windows 10.
I get so many service desk issues for macs that are resolved by a reboot, and why don't they reboot?.. because they worry that the updates will take 20 minutes.
I hate MacOS. It causes me so much more aggravation than my main Windows user base. I'm currently having to work on printer deployments and MDM's (solved problems on Windows) just so marketing people can look cool in meetings.
I just gave one of them a Windows laptop to try and they noted how nice the PC Office apps are, and how fast their computer was (processor being 2 gen ahead of the current macbook pro)
We have one coder who still uses mac (he supports some old desktop apps that incidentally are all broken by Catalina), and since he mainly targets Linux nowadays he is currently looking at moving to Windows and WSL.
Great home computers, great for individuals, terrible for enterprise use.