IBM: It is three times more expensive to manage a Windows PC than a Mac – digi.en

The purchase price of a PC constitutes a relatively modest share of the total eiekostnadene for a business, is something that has been well-known in very many years. But now the claim of IBM that it to select the Mac instead of a Windows PC actually can make enormous differences in the operating expenses. It writes Computerworld.

During the event Jamf Nation User Conference in Minneapolis in the united STATES this week told Fletcher Previn, director of the Workplace as a Service in IBM, that 90 000 IBM employees now have started to use Macs. This is an increase from 30 000 in 2015 and, according to Previn, 100 000 of Ibm’s employees use Macs by the end of the year.

According to IBM, saving the company 535 dollars (approx. 4 300 nok) per the Mac, in the course of a four-year period, compared with Windows-based PCS. The total cost to be three times higher for Windows PCS than for Mac.

Among the reasons Previn mention is that the operating system does not require as frequent updates as Windows.

– We have to go out and manage Macene 104 fewer times in the year compared with a PC, ” said Previn.

Began to replace Windows PCS in the last year

IBM began according to Computerworld to replace Windows PCS with Macs in early 2015. Then they got employees the opportunity to choose for ourselves, and the entire 73 per cent of the employees must have wanted to select the Mac.

today’s Macs is standard with IBM in Japan, and PC’s are the exception, said Previn on the conference.

the Conference where these allegations came forward has admittedly probably an audience that is very pro-Mac, since the organizer (Jamf) is a provider of management solutions for Apple devices.

the Site WinBeta also believes that a deal between IBM and Apple from 2014 can be a major cause of that IBM is now betting so heavily on the Mac. The agreement was that IBM would develop apps for iPhone and iPad. But given that Windows platform at the time could not be used for the development of iOS apps was IBM will have to offer employees Macs to be able to keep his part of the agreement, the claim WinBeta. With Microsoft’s recent acquisition of cross-platform-development tool Xamarin is, however, iOS apputvikling possible on both macOS and Windows platforms.

press Contact Otto Backer Solberg IBM Norway confirm with the digi.now that there is a lot of Mac users in the company – also in Norway.

– It is optional. We have a scheme where the employees themselves can choose which machine they wish, and we offer support on both platforms. It is also a big Mac@work-community here, ” says Solberg.

We’ve asked Microsoft for a comment, and update any case.