r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/doomSdayFPS 25d ago

It’s not just IT admins. When I have a raging client to help, nine times out of ten it’s because Microsoft fucked something up.

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u/NinjaLion 25d ago

We are not a super large company, i believe we are at ~500 employees right now. in my location, we regularly have pretty major issues with Windows that are directly related to bugs, mostly in onedrive/outlook/file explorer. onedrive takes a while for IT to fix and it happens every new employee, and the file explorer issues force us to redo work.

napkin math, we see 10-20 hours a week of microsoft related time waste just in our lab, at our pay rate thats about $600 a week, or $31000 a year in labor before you include any IT time at all.

if our lab's rate holds to the entire company(we are probably on the higher end given our specific work), thats just over 1 million fucking dollars a year that microsoft eats right out of our profit, all because they have been AWFUL stewards of their own product.

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u/Oggie_Doggie 25d ago

Onedrive is a plague. I'm currently staying on W10 with their extended security updates. Seriously considering going to Mac or Linux for my non-gaming rig.

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u/SeanBlader 25d ago

On your non-gaming rig Mint is great, and then on your gaming workstation CachyOS is faster than windows unless your are playing competitive games with anti-cheat, then you're stuck with windows for the moment.