it is decades away from being commercialised for services. It is barely out of the lab...
And mine. I work for a reseller and VDI & BYOD were Buzzwords of the Month a few years back but not many actually really did it properly (ie. Horizon or similar), certainly in the SMB/SME space where we typically operate. It takes a surprising amount of money to deliver an end-user experience that looks identical... Funnily enough I have a call with a customer early next week about exactly this; we'll be touching on Horizon, Azure VD and W365 options amongst others. Like with O365 (now M365), MS's MO is to try and get everything rolling over to subscription to keep that sweet money rolling in regularly. Case in point - as of the end of the year Open licensing will be porting to CSP, you won't be able to buy new Open agreements.most IME
Microsoft's record is still far better than Apple's here. I find the planned obsolescence side especially disappointing with Apple, as they are in control of all, including the 3rd party Apple compatible app market to a certain degree.
With the release of macOS 12 Monterey, there will have been 19 OS X/macOS operating systems in 21 years (not including OS X Public Beta* or 'Server' versions of some), with support only ever going two prior OS versions back, which these days means one is lucky to get 3 supported years out of a given macOS version; all the more disappointing when a given version becomes the last that supports one's hardware.
* OS X Public Beta ran from Sept 13, 2000 to May 15, 2001 whereupon it ceased to function. The funny part is that Jobs managed to persuade Mac users to part with 30 bucks to become beta testers of an OS that lasted 7 months before bricking itself. 'What do you want for $29.95?'
They can commit to it all they like, you simply cannot get into any of their surface range without busting them.
No, he’s more or less correct. There have been major breaking changes in MacOS X over the years. It’s just that Apple’s users and developers are far more supine than those on Windows (I’ve been both, I work with and know both), and so will happily invest considerable resources in replacing, or porting, existing software that was already working just fine until Apple ditched or dramatically changed the libraries it required. Microsoft has gone to a lot of effort to keep old applications running on their new OS, or at least make them easy to recompile against those versions. Even on Linux, there are people maintaining ‘obsolete’ hardware platforms.Not defending apple here but your reasoning is not quite right. All of these versions have basically been iterations of OSX 10, they are not fundamental changes and upgrading is usually pretty painless. And they will go on macs way more than 2 years old. They want you on the latest version and its 'free.'
My fairly recent AMD Ryzen 7 (2019) does not have the right TPM, so no
I've also literally just discovered it has keyboard illumination!
Nope, enabled it in BIOS. Annoyed it times out and there is no option to keep it on all the time.did you clean it?
A former partner of mine was called out to a warehouse where the company she worked for had installed some equipment. The support call was that they couldn't see anything on the screens. She took one look and asked for a damp cloth......a quick wipe and 5 years of thick dust was gone....