Building and dismantling the Windows advantage

An interesting article but it does not account for the inertia within large corporate structures.   I have had some experience of this and it can take years for the implementation of any significant change.   The roll out of training for the move from a Windows environment to another one is difficult, no matter what Apple might say.   An example would be how to print.   A very simple function but fraught with all sorts of problems if the user doesn't know exactly what to do.

Of course it is different when using an iOS machine.  Here the interface is much easier, and the user probably already has sufficient skills to quickly understand any functionality.  However, this again has all sorts of problems for any IT dept trying to ensure that similar functions are available - consider the problem of printing from an iPad - great if you have access to a iPad comparable printer but I am reasonably sure that most corporate environments don't.  There may well be expertise out there that is able to write the software to allow the interface but it is just another layer of complexity for no real gain.  You only have to consider the problems that RBS/NatWest have gotten themselves into over an upgrade to see the issues involved.

Maybe one day windows will become a less dominating OS and the world will see the advantages of working in a OS x environment but quite honestly I cannot see the advantage for large companies to swap as the move does not deliver any significant advantages whilst causing huge problems. This is especially so when most corporate user hardly notice the environment they are working in as they operate specific applications within the environment.

Building and dismantling the Windows advantage
http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/04/the-building-and-dismantling-of-the-windows-advantage/

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