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I worked in the software industry for over 25 years (Computer Associates, IBM, BMC Software, etc.) and we never had a choice of which OS to use. I wasn't a programmer though. It was almost always Windows, and it was never Mac OS. At IBM it was mostly Windows too except when I worked with the AIX people. At Computer Associates we still used DOS into the early 1990s as most of the apps were DOS apps, and a few were Apple PC-DOS, and one was Mac OS, but the publications staff used DOS exclusively until we switched to Windows 3.1x. The only time I ever got to use a Mac was when I briefly worked at the US Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s. I had a Mac SE for that job. That was the first and last time I ever had a Mac at work, though I had Macs at home from 1985 until they got too sucky in the mid-1980s when I finally switched over to Windows--reluctantly I might add. I came back to Macs in 2011 and much prefer them to Windows PCs.
Bottomline was we used what the companies told us to use. Most companies I worked for bought computers based on bean-counters making huge deals with computer manufacturers like Dell. IBM was the exception because they still manufactured their own computers. In the late 1990s we got laptops that would ultimately be sold off to Lenova. But never, not even once, did any of our development staff get top of the line computers at any company I worked for. Not even close. If Pentiums were all the rage, we would get 386s and 486s and they would be at best midline models. Most of us had top of the line computers at home though, so using the work computers was frustrating.
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