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On-premise (1960-2010) -> Cloud (2010-2026) -> On-premise (2026+)?

I think that's overstated, but the loss of trust companies have with the big AI players is pretty serious. Not a big deal if your app is for sharing cat videos, but if you're medical or wealth management or a government contractor or the like enterprise clients really like to see good data security policies.

Agree. I also wonder how zero e.g., Claude Enterprise ZDR really is, and what their data pipeline actually looks like.

> Not a big deal if your app is for sharing cat videos, but if you're medical or wealth management or a government contractor or the like enterprise clients really like to see good data security policies.

If this mattered to them, they wouldn't be running so much in the cloud or in proprietary software that they have no ability to air-gap.

If companies ever cared about this, Windows would not be dominant on the desktop.

There are a lot of government jobs I know of that are absolutely air-gapped. Your computer has basically no internet access, everything is stored on-prem. Hedge funds also tend to be extremely locked down, from what I saw when I interviewed. With certain data sets either having strict encryption-in-transit or a being stored in a quirky on-prem service. I can't imagine they're going to be dumping their data into Claude, etc.

As to why Windows is so dominant, I'm as clueless as you.

> There are a lot of government jobs I know of that are absolutely air-gapped. Your computer has basically no internet access, everything is stored on-prem.

I wonder if that's because they don't know better or because of a lack of trust or costs?

It's lack of trust

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