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    [โ€“] knorke3@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Office 365 [...] i know we can use the web version

    tbf, this isn't the only software related problem. a lot of companies also use specially developed software that doesn't have a linux version because everyone in the company is using windows anyways and adding a different release target would likely add costs and consume more development time for those internal tools

    [โ€“] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I should've mentioned I've been practically only in IT companies. We never really had speciality software of any kind. In fact I could've done all of my work in Linux except for a couple of times where I had to develop in c# and .net wasn't ported to Linux yet.

    But the things I've mentioned were what was holding the company back from giving me a Linux machine.

    [โ€“] knorke3@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    tbf i am the other extreme: i work in a material science lab so we work almost exclusively with specialized/custom software

    [โ€“] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Oh yeah. That's even worse because sometimes the machines outlive the computers and software and then you're stuck maintaining a Windows 95 machine because the software was developed for that OS and the company has since came up with new machines with new software and they don't support your machine anymore.

    [โ€“] knorke3@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

    Depending on the company you work at you can actually still encounter testing equipment built during WW2 because "it still works"