I see a lot of stupidity in this story. 1.Only Windows bigots want to keep an OS that is so full of security holes it looks like swiss cheese and have to spend millions of extra dollars on anti-spyware, and anitvirus software licenses not to mention Microsofts outragious fees every year. 2.iMovie can be removed and user permissions can be limited just like Windows so they can't destroy anything you don't want them to touch just like Windows. 3.Your lack of knowledge of OSX is your only downfall. 4.Other companies use VMware which saves an IT dept lots of time reformatting or re-imaging when someone screws up on a virtual PC versus a real PC. So using Parallels has many benefits including the fact that it won't screw up the host OS. 5.OSX can run just about any Office product or substitute and now there just as fast and can run both Windows and OSX and Linux. Try that on a Dell, not!
Vista interoperates on Parallels like it was on a regular PC so the IT dept won't need to worry about it. 6.You don't need much training on OSX and that's obvious by the number of people buying Macs these days. It just works unlike Windows.
7. OSX is the risk free, cost effective, way more secure than Windows, and easy to train system with the number 1 rating in quality hardware and service.

The simple outcome is that you use the Mac OS X exclusively. Replace your 100-strong PC helpdesk with 20 Mac OS X support staff, whose main job will be telling people how to transfer their kids photos from their new digital camera from Japan onto the desktop. Those apps that still require Windows and won't work under Parallels/VMWare/Wine? Just boot into Windows, do the work, and reboot to Mac OS X to get the real work done. The programmers will eventually get the message.

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horvatic wrote:
I see a lot of stupidity in this story.

Yeah, but it isn't the author's. I think it can be correctly attributed to those to whom anything but the Windows status-quo is simply unthinkable. I think the author is correct in his assessment that that includes most IT managers.

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horvatic wrote:
1.Only Windows bigots want to keep an OS that is so full of security holes it looks like swiss cheese and have to spend millions of extra dollars on anti-spyware, and anitvirus software licenses not to mention Microsofts outragious fees every year.

Uh, yeah. And that's 99.9% of the IT managers out there. It's called job security and a bigger fiefdom to rule. Get rid of Windows and you just lost the whole reason you have 80% of your staff and 90% of your budget. You will never find a manager of anything who wants to lose 80% of his staff and 90% of his budget, ESPECIALLY if it turns out that the alternative that is resulting in such downsizing of his turf can be easily managed by someone with a lot less training and experience and a smaller paycheck than he has.

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6.You don't need much training on OSX and that's obvious by the number of people buying Macs these days. It just works unlike Windows.

So you're an IT manager. You're MS trained, MS certified, and your degree (like 99% of the Information Systems or CS programs out there) was earned on PCs using MS Windows and applications. Your staff is similarly situated.

So why on God's green Earth would you EVER want a system that would put you and people like you and the people who work for you out of work?

The answer is that you don't. Which is why MS PCs will continue to dominate the enterprise even as Macs gain in the consumer world. It's sheer inertia, and I think the author has it spot on that despite all the benefits, IT managers will be seeing the costs as far outweighing them for the simple reason that they're looking at costs that go far beyond the dollars and cents of hardware and software investments.

Eventually these PC Centrics WILL have to do something. At present, all these IT guys are competing in a Windows environment. It will only take one major company to transit to Macs/OS X and to start saving truckloads of money for the dam to break.....

Its down to the bottom line, and why should the tail wag the dog?

IT people hassled by users questions? Wait a minute isn't that their JOB? They don't want to learn new software? Isn't that their JOB? I don't WANT to learn a new version of InDesign or a new MacOS, but its part of my job. If the attitude listed here is typical of IT people then the CIO needs to find new IT people and failing that, the CEO needs to find a new CIO. Ridiculous. This article speaks more to backward IT business culture than Macs vs. Windows. We all know Windows is speced because it makes IT people's jobs safe and important; it's time CEOs were told that's the reason.

"IT departments don't want to be hassled by users who keep asking, "Why do I have to do it your way? Mac OS X makes it so much simpler!""

Tell me about it. We just moved to exchange from Lotus and the IT department went through our macs like a tornado. I had permission problems up the wazoo! All because they want to standerdise the Macs like the PCS. So I hassled them with that SAME question!

The answer: 'Because our company uses Microsoft!' punto final!

I like bugging IT guys. . . their attempts at patience shows on their face. . . from red to blue to white. . .lol

>never find a manager of anything who wants to lose 80% of his staff and 90% >of his budget,

Hmm. Unless they are financially motivated by doing so (i.e. cutting costs) - which has been the main argument for throwing expensive Unix machines and support staff out in favour of commodity PCs and MCSE staff.