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Posted on February 12, 2024 at 02:42 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

WINDOWS 11

By Susan Bradley

There is a dirty little secret in corporate technology — we don’t care about your operating system.

If it misbehaves, we blow it off. If your computer doesn’t work, we issue you a new one. Don’t like that keyboard? Throw it away. Get a new release of Windows? We redeploy the entire operating system, using one of our various methodologies.

It’s my opinion that this mentality — that the desktop doesn’t matter and can be easily wiped away — persists inside the Microsoft organization.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.07.0, 2024-02-12).

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