• Wow, Steve. I think this is the first time in my career that I've heard that companies will not use any software BUT from Microsoft. It has always been the other way around for me. Although not at 100%. Meaning, use anything but software from MS unless there is nothing else. The notion of someone restricting their software to only one company these days would have me question the long term strategies of the IT department within the organization and try to understand where the value is in doing that. Security concerns, imho, is not a legitimate reason, as mentioned already, steps can be taken to validate/verify.

    What is the % of the companies that have this policy in place? From my experience, it should be a small number.