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You're telling them that your convenience is worth more to the company than plugging a security hole.

The company can live with your loss of productivity because it is living with the loss of everyone's productivity. The company cannot live without security.

On top of that, if you are the only one making noise about slow computers and complaining about stuff and things then you eventually end up being the problem. I mean, why is that lone employee complaining so hard about wanting to remove security assurances from his machine?

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No the statement is "it's worth investing in making the UX less crap to increase productivity". Either improve SW (of it's in house crap scripts, as often), switch to more performant AV, etc. etc.

It does not have to be crap actually, I have seen companies with usable machines.

O365 on the other hand, I don't see a solution, it's horrible.

> "it's worth investing in making the UX less crap to increase productivity".

I guess this is the mantra they used to redesign the Windows UI. It didn't work (they stopped at 15%). Now all they do is to use the same mantra to start over and over.

well for Windows specifically I think it's rather a managerial issue, some managers want to leave their mark, and 10% done is good enough to get promoted to other pastures and the the missing 90% become someone else's problem...

or just get rid of microsoft in the workplace and enjoy the absence of a terrible environment with the addition of fewer attack scenarios, better software and happier users but sad management people, but they don't do work on their machines anyway ;)

There's some terrible corporate-ware that runs on Linux and Mac, and the company policy will likely mandate the use of it.

this. in many cases the corporate-ware is worse on linux because they sell it as an afterthought

> or just get rid of microsoft in the workplace

We tried. Managemen and sales _love_ Microsoft Office. Guess who has the money and makes purchasing decisions ? In the mean time we have to live with (the new and improved) PSpice forgetting its settings from one day to the other. Or with (rolls drum) Teams.

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