Mark

It’s no longer meant to be used by computer savvy people. It’s meant for consumers. Literally. People that just consume and do not produce or think.

We are walking a different path now and need to say goodbye to windows and Microsoft.

I see, so quite an old company then. (Access, IBM server and sharepoint, etc) Not something a newer company would be using.

I can see you would be stuck with that older tech debt. And finding people for that old stuff is harder then finding people that want to use the new stuff.

Teaching people to use Linux? I mean, not much difference between windows and KDE anymore? Just need to know how to log in, and start their software?

In the end, if your company is not able to move and change to a new world / user demands…

I’m getting the idea people are still using ms office? At least use the online version?

From exact to online sap, nextcloud and email clients, it’s all very much web interface based. So buttons are not moving for these users at all.

As a European IT admin:

Everyone in HR, finance, sales, management can all be moved to Linux. They all use webinterfaces for all of their work.

Software development, no windows specific software.

Even marketing / image creation… More and more software is ready or available for Linux.

Ignoring this very real option for most of your people is indeed silly these days.

Hell it might be worth having a central windows VM that people can rdp into for that one old windows app.