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Microsoft Overtakes Apple as World's Most Valuable Company [Updated]
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Well, you are from the UK while I mainly work for Northern and European companies and the only companies that are using Apple products are the UK companies, which is why I said that almost all the companies that I know use Windows.
Still, as far as I am aware and as far as my experiences go most companies that we provide IT Support to use Windows and Android.
Not sure if I'm breaking any NDA's, probably not, since I'm not giving the names of the companies still use old computers and most companies are still on Windows 10.
If a laptop or a phone gets stolen you can lock the devices from Azure. Most servers are on Azure or VMware too and I've only seen Linux and Windows servers. Never have I seen a Mac server. And everybody still uses Microsoft Office even on Macs. In real life most people I know use Android phones as well. I'm the only one using a Mac and an iPhone and an iPad.
Some people call me 'an American' for that, but yeah, it might be different in the US or the UK, especially considering many countries still don't have official Apple Stores.
Sure, not disagreeing with your experience. Mind Apple never really chased the enterprise market I guess - although remember X-Serve?
I think I was trying to suggest that it's often odd, unexpected things, that can cause issues for products - the theft aspect here has become a weird catch 22, the more phones that get stolen the more people don't buy new ones ... which creates demand for secondhand ... which creates a bigger market for stolen phones... and so it turns.
I think I was trying to suggest that it's often odd, unexpected things, that can cause issues for products - the theft aspect here has become a weird catch 22, the more phones that get stolen the more people don't buy new ones ... which creates demand for secondhand ... which creates a bigger market for stolen phones... and so it turns.
i agree with the valuations
aapl stock has been stagnant
msft seems to be going steady with revenues
its been awhile since aapl released something "insanely great"
aapl stock has been stagnant
msft seems to be going steady with revenues
its been awhile since aapl released something "insanely great"
To the 'many' Apple share holders on this site it does. I am not included in that by the way.
I just wish they'll stick with cool consumer things they do that might not do amazingly at first instead of killing them off before they're fully developed. Apple succeeds because, well, marketing and their complicit fanbois in the media but also because they stick doggedly at something they want to sell.
I miss almost everything they did in the last ten-plus years. Zune. WP. The original vision for Surface. Band. And stuff they didn't ever get to do - like a trickle-down Hololens before Apple put blonde hair on it. snif
Excel is the only good part of their office suite. Google sheets it’s actually a really good alternative, if you are ok with online only.
Do you know that you can go into the settings in Edge and simply turn Copilot and the sidebar off? I did that for my Windows 11 PC and i never see or hear a peep out of it.
If your IT is at all competent they can turn all that stuff off on your Edge. In fact if it's policy then the mind boggles why it's not.
I noticed savvy users are moving to Windows 10 IoT LTS or whatever it’s called. Supported until 2032
I'd say not 'savvy' but 'hates change'. Their tools most likely won't change in the intervening period (and is probably carried over from 7 or XP if that's their mentality) so they will probably feel right at home. But not really savvy as such.
Me, I'm starting to despite Windows 11 in the way that they're actually trying to make it more like MacOS, but they seemingly don't realise they're not Apple - and also without Apple's doggedness in making something work and having it not be plastered with unfinished parts. If I wanted Explorer.exe for 5-year-olds for example, I can just turn to my existing Macs for a far more finished version of that.
That's a very long way from your original statement. And "All MacBook Pros come with scratches in their display"? That's just silly.
I'd hate to think what would happen if you start unpacking a bunch of Surfaces with that kind of take
Maybe an aneurysm
😂
I should clarify that my main gripe is with OneDrive/Teams/Sharepoint/Loop/etc.
They are all trying to do similar things, but separately they don’t do everything you need, but there’s still overlap in each of their functionality. Then there are the associated apps like Lists, which you can access from some places but not others, and there are different versions. It’s just a massive mess. They are like google where they just build all these products, but instead of canceling them like google does all the time, they keep them around for longer.
Also Word has and always will be a pain in the ass to use. And also the online version of Excel is pretty bad too.
Ok rant over now. 😅
Microsoft is just a giant hollow shell of its former past. They now just make worthless overpriced bloated products.
It is just a matter of time before that shell collapses and the true "value" of Microsoft will show.
Does anyone remember Nokia and Microsoft Windows Phone and how hard they both failed worldwide?
Nokia became almost irrelevant. Microsoft though, will become absolutely irrelevant.
Microsoft Windows, a massive bloatware/laggy software project, is the only "valuable" product Microsoft has left.
And once Microsoft Windows dies (less than 10 years), Microsoft will no longer be relevant.