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I doubt that’s a major factor. Generally you don’t use some SAP or sales software at work and then go ahead and say “I want the task bar at my gaming computer at home to have the same color and menu layout”. And in bigger companies the machines are pretty locked down. You can’t fix the printer yourself. And thus there is no knowledge to be learned that you can take home… That’s just the reason why people pay for Microsoft Office at home. Because of familiarity. But people also use the Apple software, LibreOffice or some cloud solution like Google Docs. It’s split, even with - we use XY at work.
And management… I guess they do whatever they want anyways. I often don’t see solid reasoning behind their decisions. I’ve seen it the other way round. Sometimes THEY (management people) want to implement something at work that they’re familiar with from home. And it takes like 3 days of convincing that this isn’t made for commercial purposes and will make everyone’s day worse and generally be a bad idea… Also there is lots of lobbyism and incompetence at work. Large software companies have money to advertise. Have people at the right places. And they’re successful with that. And we have the chicken and egg problem again. They’ve been using Windows. Their suppliers write software for their Windows. And that makes them stick with it. With some exceptions, of course. It’s hard to change the infrastructure at companies anyways. All the infrastructure and applications are entangled and also the IT people generally only know one ecosystem. That makes it hard to change any one piece in the puzzle on its own. And it’s also the reason why some companies still rely on obscure 30 years old software that no one is able to understand or maintain. Nobody thinks that’s healthy. However, it’s part of daily business for IT people.
I doubt that’s a major factor. Generally you don’t use some SAP or sales software at work and then go ahead and say “I want the task bar at my gaming computer at home to have the same color and menu layout”. And in bigger companies the machines are pretty locked down. You can’t fix the printer yourself. And thus there is no knowledge to be learned that you can take home… That’s just the reason why people pay for Microsoft Office at home. Because of familiarity. But people also use the Apple software, LibreOffice or some cloud solution like Google Docs. It’s split, even with - we use XY at work.
And management… I guess they do whatever they want anyways. I often don’t see solid reasoning behind their decisions. I’ve seen it the other way round. Sometimes THEY (management people) want to implement something at work that they’re familiar with from home. And it takes like 3 days of convincing that this isn’t made for commercial purposes and will make everyone’s day worse and generally be a bad idea… Also there is lots of lobbyism and incompetence at work. Large software companies have money to advertise. Have people at the right places. And they’re successful with that. And we have the chicken and egg problem again. They’ve been using Windows. Their suppliers write software for their Windows. And that makes them stick with it. With some exceptions, of course. It’s hard to change the infrastructure at companies anyways. All the infrastructure and applications are entangled and also the IT people generally only know one ecosystem. That makes it hard to change any one piece in the puzzle on its own. And it’s also the reason why some companies still rely on obscure 30 years old software that no one is able to understand or maintain. Nobody thinks that’s healthy. However, it’s part of daily business for IT people.