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mapontoseventhstoday at 12:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

I have now worked for/with a significant percentage of the fortune 500. All used Windows in some capacity.

Is this just your way of saying that only tiny, weird, companies are "good"?


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rurbantoday at 1:29 PM

It's saying that those with Windows could be 100x more effective and secure. Wasting billions of money and a lot of time

hparadiztoday at 12:36 PM

These days corporate security treats these workstations like a dummy terminal. No secrets live on the workstation. You have to re-auth with sso constantly with biometrics and are basically editing data that is in a cloud. So the risk to a corp is minimal where even in the worst case they are insured.

Zero days like this are being disclosed regularly so the idea of securing a windows workstation is tantalizing but you'll never feel satiated trying to drink that water so don't even try.

So yea there's plenty of windows users but we're certainly not hosting anything important on those boxes and would frankly be aghast at the suggestion.