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Using Chromebooks and iPhones is supposed to make people less tolerant of vendor overreach??

The big shortcoming that windows had was fixed with powershell and windows terminal. Now it's just got mildly annoying UI defaults.

The big things it has are:

* Outlook and the rest of Office * Visual Studio * Active Directory * Tons and tons of industry-specific applications

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I didn't say that the alternatives didn't have their own issues with vendor overreach, it's that the reaction you can imagine from staff in an average organisation now if you said "We're moving from Windows to [some other OS]" today is almost certainly going to be very different from the same announcement to an average organisation 20 years in the future.

Agree that Windows has a massive lead.

At least they won't get owned by ransomware with a Chromebook and iPhone.

The ability to freely run software has its risks, no doubt. But switching to what are effectively terminals centrally managed by big corporations sounds quite dystopian to me.

They actually do, surprisingly.

Lots of people got tricked on their iPhones after installing ransomware apps on them from the app store.

They couldn't figure out how to exit the app (you had to open the shutdown dialog via long press on power) and went on to pay after getting a scary warning/full screen hijack

Been a while since I read about this though, not sure how frequently it happens currently

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