I don’t care about paint, I use paint.net anyway. But I’m disappointed with this: > System Image Backup (SIB) Solution > We recommend that users use full-disk

I don’t care about paint, I use paint.net anyway. But I’m disappointed with this: > System Image Backup (SIB) Solution > We recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors. > Deprecated Sure, low-level system tools such as image backups are pain to support. But so far, Microsoft did better job than other vendors did. It’s much easier to break Windows restoring from a third-party backup like Acronis. Microsoft appears to consistently do better with GPT layouts, UEFI system partitions, and other stuff used by modern Windows installations. Also, Microsoft’s backup writes VHD images, and the built-in disk management tool can mount these images to access the data. With some setup, Windows can even boot directly from a VHD image, natively, i.e. without virtualization involved. Not the case with third party disk image formats.