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IT Practice Within Microsoft

Posted by michael on from the yummy-dog-food dept.

SilentChris writes "Good article over at CNet regarding Microsoft's internal IT practices. Some intriguing statements from the CIO, from the obvious ('It's an easy choice for me--to run Microsoft technology. We don't run Unix. We don't run Linux. We don't run Oracle.') to the not-so-obvious ('Our users are the admins of their machines. They can load whatever software they want on their machines, but we do audit the network continuously.') I wonder how much time is spent combatting spyware?"

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  1. From the article by grub · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Do you use any Linux?
    As a policy, I don't run anything that competes with Microsoft. My goal is to make sure Microsoft products are the best products in the world.

    If you don't run anything other than Microsoft products how can you "make sure Microsoft products are the best"? It's easy to compete with a field you get to choose.

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  2. Very honest of him by mav[LAG] · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From the article:

    As an IT organization, I have no skills and no ability

    OK, OK, it's from the middle of a sentence but my eye was still arrested by it :)

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  3. Whatever they want? by corngrower · · Score: 0, Redundant
    They can load whatever software they want on their machines,

    I wonder how many of them have loaded Linux on their machines.