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Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (10 children)

How do you manage a fleet of linux devices and stay up to date with compliance?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Not entirely sure what you mean; Linux’s user management, access control, security etc has always been ahead of Windows’ for its whole existence.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world -4 points 5 days ago (8 children)

On the server side I can agree, but linux does not get device drivers for majority of hardware let alone regular device driver updates. That fact alone makes the entire company un-compliant in many industries.

You could get an entire fleet of linux supported laptops and get then compliance becomes easier to manage since the software on linux lends well to sys admin fleet control. You would have to push patches weekly to the fleet which would result in a ton of random user bugs.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you work for Microsoft or something? This reads exactly like their sales FUD playbook

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

No, im a linux user and I love linux. But it doesnt help anything to pretend it isnt flawed.

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