Windows won't dominate enterprise in a decade, says outgoing Jamf CEO
Dean Hager of Apple device management firm Jamf predicts Windows will no longer be the dominant enterprise platform, and Apple will take its place.
Dean Hager of Jamf
Hager has previously praised Apple's competitor to Jamf, Apple Business Essentials. Now that he is about to stand down, he's predicting Apple will topple Windows in corporations.
"No matter which way you look at it, Windows is a declining ecosystem and has been for 20 years," Hager told ComputerWorld. "That's not a knock at Windows, it's a statement of fact."
"In 10 years' time, Windows will not be the dominant ecosystem," he said. "Apple is coming up because it already dominates the mobile enterprise."
"When I joined Jamf in 2015, I thought some pretty special things were going to happen with Apple in the enterprise," continued Hager. "But I think even my predictions would have fallen far short of what has actually happened in the last eight years."
Hager's point is partly that he says Windows has no mobile device to equal the iPhone, and so can't be what he calls an "endpoint leader." It can't dominate because it isn't competing across the platforms enterprise users want.
But it's also that issue of the customer and their needs.
"We live in an environment where people using the technology have a stronger voice than they've ever had in the history of the corporate world," he said. "And ultimately that voice will prevail."
"[Users] will choose the technology that they want, and this just wasn't true 20 or even 10 years ago," he continued. "But the world has changed, employees have a choice, and those organizations that don't allow that choice are falling behind today."
Following the launch of Apple Business Essentials, aimed at smaller firms, Jamf has added a Jamf Fundamentals plan for the same market.
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MS Windows PCs may not be the majority of PC computers in Enterprise/Corporations 10 years from now, but it's going to be an MS ecosystem of Azure, Outlook, Office, Teams, etc. There are uncountable bytes of documents in Office formats. As long as those are around, everyone in business is using Office. From there it branches to Azure backends for Teams and Outlook. Teams and Outlook should merge into one app. Tired of have multiple ways to communicate to people.
Trying to compare what is happening in enterprise to what has happened in Mobile. Well, that would mean Chromebooks would be taking over the world right? Just like Android has 80% of the global market? I don't see Chromebooks going anywhere either.
Windows is here to stay unless there is a move to Linux. When I was first working at my current job, I was using a Linux computer. it was a few years before moving over to a Windows computer. I see Linux far more likey than Windows or Apple if there is some major charge in the workforce computer.
It wasn’t all that many years ago that I was fighting with clients because they didn’t even want to replace 800 X 600 monitors.
Now they want us to trust them again? Spend huge dollars on their equipment just to be forgotten again? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
And, no one wants to use the free Apple productivity apps except people who are so anti-MS they force themselves to, or are to cheap to pay for MS Office like everyone else.
Why not just let the user decide at that point? Who cares if more people choose Windows machines or Mac machines, seriously? At least the users would have a choice, something they mostly lack today and any "win by volume" is most definitely not the strong point people claim when the choice is forced upon you.
let’s face it, microsoft owns the office suite and will protect it by whatever is needed. All the best features will be on windows platform.
Apple replacing Microsoft in the Enterprise? I don’t see it. But I do see Microsoft being gradually eroded, as businesses move from the “hammer” that is Excel, to other more precise tools. Who will replace Microsoft in the enterprise? Maybe this is the moment for the open source movement to step into the ring.
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