At school we were tought how to work with it (my teacher was so outdated, he barely knew what Linux was) but I can't find any good reason to use it instead of Linux

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 minutes ago

Is this a real question? It's very obvious you don't work in IT.

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Every single business running Windows computers (which is about all of them) will have an Active Directory running on Windows.

Every company I worked for only ever had a handful of Linux servers and the majority of Windows servers.

Microsoft revenue generated $26.7 billion in one quarter from its Licensing, and even though a lot of it was through cloud, a lot of it also came through self hosted Windows servers.

You live in a bubble if you think nobody is using Windows server.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Agreed. Most orgs don't have a serious demand for their computers anyway just web clients to SaaS products. So Chromebooks and Google suite. Windows and cloud AD and Office 365. All Mac. Honestly work find with the biggest goal being lowest hurdle for support.

Windows had that locked down especially with vendors support zero config support where they will ship a laptop ready to go.

It's always super painful where those orgs then want to do anything serious on a server, cause yeah none of what I said is optimized for a decent server experience.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago

Yes, and it's terrible.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

My company uses it for some of our legacy on-prem hosting, but a lot of that is being actively decommissioned.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, I've seen a lot of it for two things.

First being sqlserver, though that's been able to run on linux for a long time now, there's a bunch of features not supported but not a deal breaker for a lot of people, I haven't encountered ssis or ssas in years for example.

Second being Internet Information Services (IIS), which some people really seem to like.

Wouldn't be surprised if active directory required a windows machine either, definitely a bunch of cases I'm not considering or aware of but I'm no sysadmin.

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

I think some still use it for game servers