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I'm not in IT anymore and we run 100% macs, so serious question here: isn't nearly everything a webapp nowadays? Every "non dev" thing that I have to do for work happens in my browser or an electron app. I guess maybe MS Office apps may be the biggest hitch? We use Google Workspace and that's all in browser.

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Legacy apps are quite common. I have recently been doing IT for State Farm Insurance.

Every State Farm insurance office in the country is still using a DOS App from the 1980's to run their office.

I'm interested what these DOS applications are running on. Is it virtualised or a real physical machine?

Not at all. "Industry", think: manufacturing is still big on desktop applications.

Shouldn't be too hard to bundle them together with qemu, or some other vm solution.

None of my enterprise ERP/PLM/CRM systems run on Mac Server OS

There are actually web versions of the office suite now.

It's horrible to use though. Google's suite is somewhat better than MSFT's web one, but it still is weak compared to any established desktop office suite, even libreoffice.

I've found it alright to be honest. I'd like to use libre office but the incompatibilities with .docx make it too annoying. Finally I can easily work with .docx on Linux, thanks to the web version :)

It's only good for viewing and simplistic editing. More complex stuff ends up being unavailable on the web version very often.

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