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There are a lot of great comments in here.

I also see another possible angle on this.

What is the actual windows system usage at google currently? It might already be low enough to represent a serious time-sink for IT/security because it's already a serious minority?

It makes a lot of sense to maintain somewhat complex policies and management for a vast network of Windows based systems and servers. It is entirely different when you're looking at trying to keep a handful of systems in-line when they are not your primary focus.

Obviously this is purely speculative but trying to look at it from another perspective.



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