Surface-level answer: hardware is expensive and the operating environment is rigid, in relation to government systems. Real answer: Microsoft and IBM long ago figured out a way to tweak the contract bidding process against Apple.
Computers died. Computers are sentient. Hundreds of thousands of deaths. Some are saying the largest virus ever. Larger than the china virus even.
It feels like this thread should have more drunk talk and boobs. I hope everyone has a fine weekend, and didn't have to worry about getting found out their work computers have porn on them.
Since 'nerds is on vacation, I was going to post this and say "enjoy some lobster" or something. But, while deciding which photo to post - just boobs? full frontal? boobs n ass? how are her nails looking? - I noticed the lobster float has the longest warning label I have ever seen. WTF? What does that possibly accomplish? Who is reading that? Spoiler: Nekkid
And, small business owners who had employees sitting around doing nothing, aka not billing. There was lots of yelling today, for sure. Lots of finger pointing, and people shouting "how does this happen?" - sometimes to noone in particular, sometimes to very particular people.
Is it true that Southwest Airlines was not impacted because they're running older version of Windows? lol
Man I called my friend in IT to see if he could fix it instead of going in the office and said it’s a shit Friday morning. He goes do you have any idea how bad my morning is? He had 30 phone calls before 7am.
The large health systems in town (neither of which we are part of) were both medium fucked today, so naturally we got lots of angry calls from patients about things we have absolutely no control over.
Is there a list somewhere of the companies or even sectors which have been impacted? I saw clips earlier of Times Square and the billboards were all black. It was kinda funny, in the sense that it doesn’t impact me at all so I don’t have to worry. But if/when it does… yeah I’m sure I’ll be right there crying with the IT guys.
Real, actual answer - Apple has a shit tech stack for enterprises, and poor backwards compatibility. Nobody has a competitive answer for Microsoft's full enterprise management tools. The fact that you can onboard a user, onboard their hardware, and manage every aspect of that user and their equipment throughout their entire lifecycle of their employment is one of the most valuable tools that an enterprise has, and Microsoft just gives it to you as part of the environment. In addition, you can run the overwhelming majority of Windows apps that have been written in the last 30 years on most Windows systems. If you want to do any of that with Apple you're going to run a hodgepodge of third party tools and you can forget about backwards compatibility. This isn't really a dig at Apple, they don't give a shit about the enterprise and their constant dropping of legacy apps means they get to keep their system sleek and modern. Microsoft has been the 800 lb. gorilla of enterprise IT because historically, they're the only ones properly catering to that market, and the ecosystem built up around that really has no peer. And once you get an enterprise IT environment deployed with tens- to hundreds-of-thousands of users, trying to pivot off it is a nightmare. Nothing comprehensive, it's just too widespread to make some kind of effective list.
So today Jungle Julia found another snake eating goose eggs; she tried to kill it, but didn't even wound it. I got home and found it under some boards, and then transported it a few miles away, to a brushy area that is owned by the county. JJ is now super pissed at me because I didn't finish the job of killing it. I'm not sorry. Spoiler This fucker was 6 feet long.I stretched it out in my arms.