Re: But why?
"IT bureaucracies that seek to have someone else to blame when things go bad"
Having someone to blame isn't the same as having someone to fix it. Either the bureaucracy does that itself or, given that it would be too much like hard work, outsources it. They're unlikely to outsource it to Microsoft but to a third party. The stupid thing is, of course, that the Windows supporting third party can't really go beyond what their latest MS certification course taught them whilst the FOSS-supporting third party can actually look at the source code. It ways more about the stupidity of large bureaucracies with more interest in off-loading blame than in supporting their employers.
"There is also constant pressure to make the software available on Windows... perhaps because it would allow the software to be used in university teaching labs"
What an indictment of University teaching labs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
