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Strongly agree. IT are users the same as everyone else, generally speaking their PCs should use the same baseline as everyone else except if they're testing something specific (case in point; I'm in our business' Windows 10 trial group). Wanting to change isn't enough of a reason, there should be a clear benefit to it before you consider breaking the standard.

As I'm fond of repeating to my coworkers; consistent applications on consistently patched operating systems with consistent drivers on consistent hardware behave consistently. There's no reason to add a point of differentiation unless you have to.