Computing Viewpoints: Endpoints – shifting platforms

Overview

Until recently, the accepted wisdom had long been that hardware choice was cosmetic and no longer that important: Windows PCs had won the war for desktop OS supremacy in front of Linux and Apple. Today, of course, the landscape visible through the corporate window has changed beyond recognition, and that presents a challenge to IT strategists.

But while the "old" desktop-accessed world may seem like ancient history, the challenge for IT strategists is that - with one or two exceptions - it still exists for business; the Noughties' wave of consumer technologies, social platforms and mobile devices may have overwhelmed it in the public imagination, but IT leaders still understand, manage, support and secure the old world and its certainties.