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Those are ChromeBooks, not Windows laptops. Also, I'd never heard of WIMBoot. Being a Microsoft employee doesn't make me a Windows expert. I don't work on Wi

by dpark 9y ago

Those are ChromeBooks, not Windows laptops. Also, I'd never heard of WIMBoot. Being a Microsoft employee doesn't make me a Windows expert. I don't work on Windows and don't own any systems that WIMBoot targets. Looking at WIMBoot, it doesn't seem relevant for the case discussed here, either, since this client clearly didn't have the small space usage WIMBoot enables.

DanBC 9y ago
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAG56KU1351&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-9SIAAG56KU1351-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAG56KU1... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAF136G48784&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-9SIAF136G48784-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAF136G48... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAC4Z6CZ4439&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-1TS-000D-02370-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAC4Z6CZ4... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G6DV4649&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-9SIA24G6DV4649-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G6DV4... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R46JS9643&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-1TS-000X-00N58-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R46JS9... etc etc. There are very many machines sold now, today, with Windows 10 (and previously Windows 8) that have only 32 GB drive space. With WIMBoot any updates would eat drive space and that space was not recoverable, and this would sometimes prevent updating to Windows 10. MS says this here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/03/16/how-windows-10-achieves-its-compact-footprint/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/03/16/how-w... > The reason Windows 8.1 devices using WIMBOOT are not yet able to upgrade to Windows 10 is because many of the WIMBOOT devices have very limited system storage. That presents a challenge when we need to have the Windows 8.1 OS, the downloaded install image, and the Windows 10 OS available during the upgrade process. We do this because we need to be able to restore the machine back to Windows 8.1 if anything unexpected happens during the upgrade, such as power loss. In sum, WIMBOOT devices present a capacity challenge to the upgrade process and we are evaluating a couple of options for a safe and reliable upgrade path for those devices. There's a complex workaround of "delete everything, and use two USB sticks" which isn't great for the target user. The new file compression stuff is much much better than WIMBoot.

by dpark 9y ago

DanBC 9y ago

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAG56KU1351&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-9SIAAG56KU1351-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAG56KU1... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAF136G48784&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-9SIAF136G48784-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAF136G48... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAC4Z6CZ4439&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-1TS-000D-02370-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAC4Z6CZ4... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G6DV4649&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-9SIA24G6DV4649-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G6DV4... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R46JS9643&cm_re=windows_laptop-_-1TS-000X-00N58-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6R46JS9... etc etc. There are very many machines sold now, today, with Windows 10 (and previously Windows 8) that have only 32 GB drive space. With WIMBoot any updates would eat drive space and that space was not recoverable, and this would sometimes prevent updating to Windows 10. MS says this here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/03/16/how-windows-10-achieves-its-compact-footprint/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/03/16/how-w... > The reason Windows 8.1 devices using WIMBOOT are not yet able to upgrade to Windows 10 is because many of the WIMBOOT devices have very limited system storage. That presents a challenge when we need to have the Windows 8.1 OS, the downloaded install image, and the Windows 10 OS available during the upgrade process. We do this because we need to be able to restore the machine back to Windows 8.1 if anything unexpected happens during the upgrade, such as power loss. In sum, WIMBOOT devices present a capacity challenge to the upgrade process and we are evaluating a couple of options for a safe and reliable upgrade path for those devices. There's a complex workaround of "delete everything, and use two USB sticks" which isn't great for the target user. The new file compression stuff is much much better than WIMBoot.