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Microsoft No Longer Allows Admins To Block Windows Store Access In Windows 10 Pro (zdnet.com)
If you're an administrator, you will no longer be able to block Windows 10 Pro users on your watch from accessing the Windows Store. Mary Jo Foley reports for ZDNet: Up until a month ago, admins could use Group Policy to shut off employees' access to Windows Store if they were running Windows 10 Pro. Controlling this access is a requirement for some businesses. But last month, Microsoft changed that option, claiming that Store access was required for all versions of Windows 10 except Enterprise and Education "by design." Admins still can use AppLocker or Group Policy to block access to the Windows Store if their employees (or students) are running Enterprise or Education.
This company SUCKS.
You don't own your computer. redmond does.
Microsoft, can you please stop f**king up? You had one job.
MS realized that corp america will be stuck with them for still quite a while. home users user whatever comes installed; they mostly are just sheep and do what they are told. we are a tiny tiny exception. and beyond that, mac people are their own strange kind that will never consider using windows (most hate linux, too).
MS can do whatever it wants and it will still have business' loyalty.
the key was entrenching Word format and getting it so complicated that it simply cannot be made interoperable with free alternatives.
when all your docs are locked to MS formats, you know the result. you have no choice anymore.
MS stopped trying to get us to CHOOSE windows. they now have decided to say 'fuck it' and just force whatever they want on people and with win10, they remove all your choices. little by little, the frog is slowly cooked and users are having all their choices taken away, for rejecting updates and for setting policies on their own.
you and I will reject windows, but again, we are not big enough ($$) to even register on the pocket-change o-meter that MS has. MS is kept alive by business licenses and the home stuff is just to keep you 'trained' on using windows so that business will continue to think that their userbase needs to continue with that same old os.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Forced "upgrades", removing features after the fact, spyware you can't disable.
Please Microsoft, keep pissing off users and administrators. Soon since everything will be "in the cloud" and all apps will be web based we won't have a reason to use your shitty OS anymore.
There's probably technical reasons for this
No, there isn't.
additional revenue.
The *ONLY* reason it's being done.
" Maybe I really will end up a Mac guy after all, or something?"
Ok. Since the presence of the 'forced' app store on Windows 10 offended you so much that you are considering switching to Mac.
What is the Apple supported way to remove the App Store in OSX El Capitan?
The app store in OSX is, if anything even more integrated than the App Store in Windows is, as it delivers OS updates as well. I look around a bit and found a few articles from circa 2011 when they first introduced it in 10.6. and even back then the removal instructions amounted to hacks where "you can do a-b-c to remove it but its not supported by apple at all". And that was several releases ago now.
So here we have a case of Microsoft doing a thing that everyone has seemingly already accepted from Apple years ago... but hate Microsoft doing it so much that they threaten to switch to Apple over it... so...um... yeah.
I miss Windows 2000.
You shouldn't have to do this. Essentially you're treating the OS itself as malware.
No,they haven't. It's not the people they're giving free upgrades to 10 to,
Wanna guess who the customer is?
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
FUCK MICROSOFT!! (*somebody* had to say it.. the fanbois never will...)
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
LOL and so died /. in the year 2016, completely overtaken by nonsense.
The really ironic part: this complete falsehood is modded to +5, when in fact Windows 7 will work fine with nearly any hardware out of the box. Linux will not, and even the horrible moderation system this outdated site uses can't hide this fact. You might as well ban everyone that disagrees and mod this lie to +10 while you're at it.
Did you even RTFS? They've just removed a feature that is something that enterprise users want. Home users don't care about group policy controls, they're solely an enterprise feature and they've just removed it from the version of Windows 10 targeted at enterprise customers.
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According to TFS, they removed the feature from Windows Pro only, not Enterprise. Home users don't care about group policy and enterprise users are already using Enterrpise; this move is to get small / medium businesses to move to the more expensive Enterprise version as well.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Ding ding ding! That's why they did this. Enterprise scenario means enterprise tier license costs and CALs!
Right, and OEMs are not allowed to sell machines with Windows 10 Enterprise. So companies have to license enterprise at it's full retail price, which is about 500 dollars a unit. This puts Enterprise outside the price range for most small/medium businesses.
Microsoft is essentially doubling down on an already dangerous precident: You either buy Microsoft's ridiculously inflated prices for the Enterprise version, or you allow Microsoft to dictate how you deploy and manage your computers. First with the telemetry, and now with the app store.
What's the quote? "I have altered our agreement. Pray I do not alter it any further."
As a sysadmin, the computers under my care are MY responsibility. That means *I* control what happens to them, and I will not be forced to almost double our upgrade costs just to satisfy Satya Nadella's "What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" freak fetish.
We've experimented with a couple of machines running Windows 10, but at this point it's become painfully clear that I will never upgrade our machines to Windows 10 because Microsoft has has demonstrated that despite all their hand wavy "I got better!" bullshit, they're still just as monopolistic and ruthless as ever.