The bottom line: Executives and road warriors are the best candidates for Mac use in a company, in addition to the historic Mac enclaves of application development and creative functions such as marketing and design. Windows PCs, running Windows 7 today and Windows 10 in a few years, will remain the standard computing device for the majority of users.An all-Mac environment is as unreasonable as an all-Windows one.Macs cost the same as business-class PCs, and their total cost of ownership (TCO) is usually lower.Macs do what most people need, though there are critical corporate needs that only Windows apps serve.Macs provide an operational recovery option that an all-Windows environment doesn't.Macs are more secure out of the box than Windows PCs.

The truth is not black and white, but the following are true, even if many IT shops remain willfully ignorant to the facts and hang on to Mac realities and stereotypes from the 1990s:

That wasn't my intent, but those comments made me think about where the Mac fits in the enterprise and what causes so many IT organizations to be so emotionally opposed to having non-Windows PCs in their companies. When I said last week that Windows 10 won't save the PC, some Windows-addled IT folks said I was secretly suggesting that enterprises replace their PCs with Macs.

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