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Gartner: Apple Macs invading the Windows PC-dominated enterprise

06.06.2012
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Look out, information technology managers, Mac computers are invading the enterprise, and though you may have been able to slam the door on them in the past, the era of "no Macs need apply" is coming to an end in the PC-dominated workaday world.

That was the spirit of Gartner analyst Michael Silver's talk at the Gartner conference here, as he shared the consultancy's outlook on what exactly is going on in the enterprise desktop.

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The enterprise is still a Windows PC-dominated universe, but Windows is not only being challenged by newer tablet technologies, a subtle shift is also happening that sees users demanding Mac computers, and IT managers no longer can turn that request down so easily, and probably shouldn't anyway, he said.

"[The desktop] is still 90-something percent Windows," said Silver, adding that "thin clients will have 4% or so by the end of the year." At most, there might be a 5% installed base of Macs, which IT managers traditionally regarded as an additional management burden over the Windows PCs they must carefully tend for updates and patch management.