[xarope]

some companies don't have a choice; in a previous AEC job (architecture/engineering/construction), we had to deploy windows to use Autodeck Revit.

Now servers and other backend stuff, on the other hand, linux and illumos.

[thewebguyd]

This is common I'd argue in most businesses.

Despite Microsoft's behavior and all of Windows' flaws, when properly managed and controlled in an enterprise, it's not so bad, and there's still a ton of software out there that is Windows only.

Where I work now is pretty much like that. Windows on end-user endpoints, Linux everywhere else.