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No Microslop for me (media.piefed.social)

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[-] pewpew@feddit.it 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just wondering... Is there anyone on Earth using Windows Server?

At school we were tought how to work with it (my teacher was so outdated, he barely knew what Linux was) but I can't find any good reason to use it instead of Linux

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 days ago

Every single business running Windows computers (which is about all of them) will have an Active Directory running on Windows.

Every company I worked for only ever had a handful of Linux servers and the majority of Windows servers.

Microsoft revenue generated $26.7 billion in one quarter from its Licensing, and even though a lot of it was through cloud, a lot of it also came through self hosted Windows servers.

You live in a bubble if you think nobody is using Windows server.

[-] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

I've never worried in a shop that uses Windows s screen. That's insane.

[-] Tameraikou@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Only if they have local infrastructure, a lot of businesses are just using m365 and joining to their MS tenancy.

Although I will say, the use of Windows servers are due to supporting applications that are written for MS and not Linux or BSD.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Agreed. Most orgs don't have a serious demand for their computers anyway just web clients to SaaS products. So Chromebooks and Google suite. Windows and cloud AD and Office 365. All Mac. Honestly work find with the biggest goal being lowest hurdle for support.

Windows had that locked down especially with vendors support zero config support where they will ship a laptop ready to go.

It's always super painful where those orgs then want to do anything serious on a server, cause yeah none of what I said is optimized for a decent server experience.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Is this a real question? It's very obvious you don't work in IT.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

At my previous job, all developers were given desktops running windows server. It was horrible but I spent 95% of my time in a Linux vm so I got by while I was there.

[-] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Pretty much any company that has their own IT team but is not an IT company, is most likely using Windows infrastructure.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, we basically only use Windows servers at our company (except some people in our team)

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

My company uses it for some of our legacy on-prem hosting, but a lot of that is being actively decommissioned.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, and it's terrible.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah my company only has Windows servers, I'm sure other small and mid sized businesses are the same

[-] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

IIS. So so so much IIS.

[-] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I've seen a lot of it for two things.

First being sqlserver, though that's been able to run on linux for a long time now, there's a bunch of features not supported but not a deal breaker for a lot of people, I haven't encountered ssis or ssas in years for example.

Second being Internet Information Services (IIS), which some people really seem to like.

Wouldn't be surprised if active directory required a windows machine either, definitely a bunch of cases I'm not considering or aware of but I'm no sysadmin.