Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google

End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.

Omnissa’s State of Digital Workspace report suffers from the same problem as all research published by vendors in that its authors conclude its findings demonstrate many fine reasons reason why you should consider the company’s products.

We’ll ignore that and consider some other findings instead, such as data that shows users of Apple devices update software faster than owners of other machines. Omnissa found macOS devices are updated 1.5 times faster than Windows hardware, while iOS machines get updated 8.1 times faster than Android. “OS update controls for macOS are centralized ...