This is why a lot of companies end up leasing notebooks and stuff, cause then IT does not have to explain why it is time to replace hardware.. lease is up is something they understand. If you buy (which is cheaper) you end up fucking yourself cause by the time it needs to be replaced some penny pincher higher up will say.. nah this is still good for a few more years. And before you know it you are stuck with outdated crap that costs more and more time and effort to keep operational.

Same with infra.. and why IT pushes for cloud first. It's working so it's fine. No matter the switches are EOL and the server hardware is EOL and so is the OS without ESU.. we need to invest in this new piece of stuff.. no money for the rest.. just keep it running.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

But to that point - they inevitably spend millions on Microsoft either through windows laptops or office bundling because they buy the spew that “Microsoft will support it” and “If we get breached because of a problem with Microsoft they’ll cover us” or some similar crap.

No, and no. By the way, IT managers.

Building it is not always the right answer, and yes a Linux workstation for sales is gonna get people upset still, but. This moron treadmill of chasing Microsoft through whatever their latest absurdities are is heinously expensive and pathetic. Are you an IT company or not? Well?