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One Windows 10 version that many people are ignorant of is Windows 10 for education, which is based on the enterprise edition. It has the ability to disable alm

One Windows 10 version that many people are ignorant of is Windows 10 for education, which is based on the enterprise edition. It has the ability to disable almost all data collecting / advertising features . Cortana doesn't even exist on this version. If you can grab this, and most university or college students should be able to for free, it'll be a big improvement in privacy. Edit: from what I recall, Microsoft stated that advertising didn't have a place in education, or something to that effect

H4CK3RM4N 10y ago
What about government employees?
- thatwebdude 10y ago
  They're using old, barely-supported (Or is 7 even supported at all anymore) versions of Windows that don't phone home.
  - xorblurb 10y ago
    7 is quite supported. MS just arbitrarily decided a few weeks ago to don't allow Windows Update if you have a too modern processor, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever from a technical POV (and which, I guess, will trigger development of tools to fake the ID of an other processor for that purpose, if that's possible), but if you have an "old enough" computer you can continue to use 7 until end of extended support, which is January 14, 2020. This absurd policy decision shows that the Win 10 market share is not as high as they hoped, BTW.
najati83 10y ago
Does Windows 10 for Education have the same features as the normal version?
Pica_soO 10y ago
Im sure we all only got ourselves to blame for our victim shame. After all, we could have just stayed away from those computers - or installed Linux, which is ridiculous expensive if you price your own time in at minimum wage. Hardware Firewall on a separate machine it is.
whyoh 10y ago
>Cortana doesn't even exist on this version. This used to be the case, but it's no longer so. The latest version of Education (1703) includes Cortana.
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H4CK3RM4N 10y ago

What about government employees?

thatwebdude 10y ago
They're using old, barely-supported (Or is 7 even supported at all anymore) versions of Windows that don't phone home.
- xorblurb 10y ago
  7 is quite supported. MS just arbitrarily decided a few weeks ago to don't allow Windows Update if you have a too modern processor, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever from a technical POV (and which, I guess, will trigger development of tools to fake the ID of an other processor for that purpose, if that's possible), but if you have an "old enough" computer you can continue to use 7 until end of extended support, which is January 14, 2020. This absurd policy decision shows that the Win 10 market share is not as high as they hoped, BTW.

najati83 10y ago

Does Windows 10 for Education have the same features as the normal version?

Pica_soO 10y ago

Im sure we all only got ourselves to blame for our victim shame. After all, we could have just stayed away from those computers - or installed Linux, which is ridiculous expensive if you price your own time in at minimum wage. Hardware Firewall on a separate machine it is.

whyoh 10y ago

>Cortana doesn't even exist on this version. This used to be the case, but it's no longer so. The latest version of Education (1703) includes Cortana.

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