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I'm pretty sure Windows 10 LTSB exists for this specific use case

• klingonopera 7y ago
  Probably. But we went from "Here's an operating system available for everyone, consumer and corporate alike!" to "This one's for consumer, this one's for corporate" and MS and their distributors would be fools not to capitalize on that. In other words, as a business, you now have less choice in distributors, which will increase the investment cost for an operating system. And then there's the whole privacy issue on top of that, too. It's just a mess, and the customers are intended to take the brunt of it. I want to say "No, thank you" and I'm currently figuring out if that's viable, i.e. Linux.
• folkhack 7y ago
  It does but good luck getting licensing. They explicitly try to make getting the LTSB/C difficult because they know everyone would buy it if they offered a "clean" version of Windows. But - if you can swing it - LTSB/C is the only thing that I would prefer for any sort of automation etc.
  • klingonopera 7y ago
    Checking around, here in Germany averages for Enterprise LTSB vs standard Enterprise is €275 vs €70. Standard Enterprise comes with forced updates and mandatory restarts, yes?
    • folkhack 7y ago
      I do believe so but I don't touch that bull. It spies on you I know that. Last enterprise copy I had I sniffed the network traffic post setup and it was a slap in the face. I also think it comes with the Windows Store too. The ONLY reason I run Windows machines is to do automation on them - I have zero tolerance for the OS.