IBM Employees Content With Their Apple Products

IBM employees have been offered to replace Windows with Apple Macbooks.

International Business Machines Corp. has announced to offer its employees with Apple Products that is Mac Devices. So now the workers at IBM can ditch the conventional Microsoft Corporation’s Windows desktop computer for an Apple MacBook Pro and a MacBook Air which they can choose according to their own preference as updated equipment for work.

As sources report, every device will have the necessary software such as VPNs, Wi-Fi, security etc. that will be installed on the system. IBM currently has around 15,000 Mac devices currently in its platform and almost 50,000 more MacBooks are likely to be a part of the IBM setup by the end of the fiscal year of 2015. However, it is now on the employees to choose whatever operating system they are comfortable in using. The choices include Linux, Windows and Mac.

This is a fairly surprising scenario for the company since IBM is the company that is initially known as the inventor of personal computers. It feels a bit strange now despite Macs were not restricted or banned by the company but dumping its own creation is relatively strange.

However, at this point Apple and IBM have been working together for more than a year now that has strengthened the relations between the two firms. The company has been building applications for Apple’s operating system iOS and also supports those organization that use Apple products in the corporate sector. Considering the history of IBM PC, both the companies that were initially each other’s rivals have established better relationships now.

So now the question here arises is that what does it actually mean for Microsoft. Despite that Windows has been losing its charm where it has already established its market presence since a long period of time. However now the market share of Windows is slipping at a great pace.

The reason is that Microsoft Windows has not doing well in the corporate or external market. Windows 8 did not succeed in establishing its market where consumers were not satisfied with the new operating system. However Windows 10 is about to make its way to consumers in a fairly short span of time which is expected to be a breakthrough for them.

Hence, in a nutshell IBM has made a great offer to its employees to switch to Apple products which have now established its image as an elite brand. This makes a crucial situation for Microsoft since companies that were associated to Windows are now diverging their paths from them.