we use vmware because customers do. if they migrate - which they might because of the licensing thing - we will too. so it's an actual possibility already.
and we still can't get vmware to run properly on our company laptops. current theory is p/e core scheduling shenanigans. it's only been two years, what can you expect from the global leaders in virtualization and os.
i swear, before i upgrade I'll move my team to Linux. I've been mainlining debian for six years without issues, INCLUDING RUNNING VMWARE.
you can still use word with git. it's versioning first, diffing and merging only where possible. since you probably won't branch you won't need the latter, though.
If humans had tails we'd have clothes to hide and possibly restrain them and it would somehow be rude to move it. It just fits the whole self loathing much of the western world had going on for the last few centuries.
Only when written, which is the whole point of notation. "Ten" is still a fixed amount, and so is four.