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The IT dept at my work uses exclusively Microsoft shit. Like, google products are banned on my work phone, as is pretty much everything else. They said this is for security and to help them remain GDPR compliant. As you might imagine, it's shit.
Including Play Store?
Not entirely. It's an android so it does have the play store, but only about a dozen apps are allowed to be installed. I can't even install what 3 words, which my work uses constantly. Also I'd like to install the Google swipe keyboard, cos the Microsoft one is shit.
Basically, the combination of a device that's locked down hard and it only allowing MS products makes my work slower and harder than it needs to be.
Work phones are usually iPhones, so yes