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Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com)
A prominent Gartner analyst argues that Windows 10 Pro is a dead end for enterprises, citing recent changes by Microsoft to the Windows 10 support schedule. "[We] predict that Microsoft will continue positioning Windows [10] Pro as a release that is not appropriate for enterprises by reducing [...] support and limiting access to enterprise management features," Stephen Kleynhans, a research vice president at Gartner and one of the research firm's resident Windows experts, said in a report he co-authored. Computerworld reports: Last year, the Redmond, Wash. developer announced a six-month support extension for Windows 10 1511, the November 2015 feature upgrade, "to help some early enterprise adopters that are still finishing their transition to Windows as a service." In February, Microsoft added versions 1609, 1703 and 1709 -- released in mid-2016, and in April and October of 2017, respectively -- to the extended support list, giving each 24 months of support, not the usual 18. There was a catch: Only Windows 10 Enterprise (and Windows 10 Education, a similar version for public and private school districts and universities) qualified for the extra six months of support. Users running Windows 10 Pro were still required to upgrade to a successor SKU (stock-keeping unit) within 18 months to continue receiving security patches and other bug fixes.
Another component of Microsoft's current Windows 10 support strategy, something the company has labeled "paid supplemental servicing," was also out of bounds for those running Windows 10 Pro. The extra support, which Microsoft will sell at an undisclosed price, is available only to Enterprise and Education customers. Paid supplemental servicing adds 12 months to the 18 months provided free of charge.
Another component of Microsoft's current Windows 10 support strategy, something the company has labeled "paid supplemental servicing," was also out of bounds for those running Windows 10 Pro. The extra support, which Microsoft will sell at an undisclosed price, is available only to Enterprise and Education customers. Paid supplemental servicing adds 12 months to the 18 months provided free of charge.
forced OS upgrades, which often breaks the registry, poor control over Windows Updates, Windows update showing App store bullshit back onto the box even after you've removed it, etc.
Only the LTSB enterprise version is usable, and even that gets annoying.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
Windows 10 Pro is a dead end for enterprise?
Luckily there is a version of Windows called Windows 10 Enterprise!
Crisis averted!
What do they expect if they continue to screw their customers?
Oh come on, you don't want them indexing your machine and using that info to share with their partners so they can show you a bunch of irrelevant games and apps you have zero use for? Can't imagine why users wouldn't want that on their enterprise machines...
That's not true, Windows is still offering paid support for Windows 10. I just got off the phone with one of their friendly tech experts who's number I Binged. He took me to this black technical looking screen and showed me all the viruses I had. He fixed me up for free! All I had to do was input my credit card number in case I needed his services again! Count me as another super satisfied Windows 10 user!!!!
Personally every install on my domain would have an enterprise sku IF I could buy machines with enterprise preinstalled from dell. Our it department has a budget of 24000 a year and we have 146 computers, 56 printers and 18 servers. Our current replacement schedule is sitting at 10 years. New systems I have been setting up I have been running decrapifier on and it does a good job of clearing all that out. Plus is it doesn’t cost anything https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/3977-windows-10-decrapifier-version-2
Well, I'd say that's only true in the context of Android, which isn't reassuring given the stuff on top of linux to worry about...
On the server side, Linux largely averted Windows drinking all the server milkshake in the first place (if the choices were commercial Unix on locked in platforms and Windows on inter operable hardware, Windows would have won). Windows did pretty much take over the groupware and directory roles, much to the chagirn of Novell. However, they have used their warchest to basically join in the cloud game so that even those pesky people running linux servers are now likely to be giving microsoft money to run their linux servers.
On the desktop side, while I hate to admit it, Linux desktops have not made an appreciable dent in the market, even when counting ChromeOS. OSX has about 10% which is something, but MS has 82% and there's no sign of any movement..
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
The devs are OK. The marketeers and business school types are the problem. Clouuuuud. AWK! Move to the cloud! AWK AWK! Cloud better! BRAAAAAWK!
Or their home machines.
So can you tell me what it's like being on the spectrum?
A lot less color detail than being on the MSX, the Commodore 64, or the Apple II. Plus you deal with the Z80 processor, which has its own strengths and weaknesses compared to a contemporary 6502.