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I hope you are not the IT decision maker. It seems all of your knowledge of Windows is based from experience with their Home edition. Unlike Home/Pro Edition,

by slacka 7y ago

I hope you are not the IT decision maker. It seems all of your knowledge of Windows is based from experience with their Home edition. Unlike Home/Pro Edition, telemetry in Windows 10 Enterprise can be disabled with a single group policy option.[1] With GPO = Secure not more data is sent to MS than your Windows 7. You also have full control updates through the group policy(Also found in Pro). Windows 10 Enterprise is the true successor or Windows 7/8 Pro. If telemetry is really such a big deal to you, I'm surprised you didn't spend 2 min. on Google to learn this. I've seen in deployed in several small businesses that care are concerned with privacy/telemetry implications. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-windows-diagnostic-data-in-your-organization https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-w...

technion 7y ago
If an IT decision maker researches this, the first thing they'll find is Microsoft's description here[0], which describes Windows Professional Edition as being designed for the SMB. It goes onto describe Enterprise as for "medium and large" businesses, a language they use elsewhere to describe business with 5,000 desktops or more. I get the view this isn't the space the above poster is in. If you buy a business computer, it will come with Windows Professional Edition - it's pointed out in this link that Enterprise Edition is only available to a Volume Licensing customer (noting there are purchase costs beyond what people are used to paying). I don't disagree with you in principle that a conscious person should look in this direction, but Enterprise is beyond the reach of many users. It's beyond the reach of a home user, it's beyond the reach of a business small enough that it doesn't want to buy into a bulk program and it's beyond the reach of a large enterprise that feels they've already spend enough on Microsoft licensing by buying "Professional" systems. They noted they had "zero interest in getting involved with enterprise-level", I have no reason to believe two minutes on Google would change anything for them. [0] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/05/13/introducing-windows-10-editions/#gKtrdwWscfCqDytx.97 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/05/13/intro...
tinus_hn 7y ago
If by turn off you mean turn off some of it, yes.
Silhouette 7y ago
I hope you are not the IT decision maker. It seems all of your knowledge of Windows is based from experience with their Home edition. We make IT decisions just fine, thanks. We just operate in a different environment to the one you're used to. We run Windows 7 Pro on our current Windows desktops, but not because we also use Windows server and the centralised management facilities. As I mentioned in another comment, we have no such thing as a standard desktop deployment in our environment, so aside from saving a small amount of time deploying security updates that we almost certainly do want everywhere, it offers few advantages. Windows 10 Pro is not like Windows 7 Pro. Windows 10 Pro does not have the kinds of configurability that small businesses like ours require. Windows 10 Enterprise is effectively a different product to the Windows 10 Pro and Home editions, but the kinds of administrative and commercial arrangements it brings are also not something we want to get involved with.

by slacka 7y ago

technion 7y ago

If an IT decision maker researches this, the first thing they'll find is Microsoft's description here[0], which describes Windows Professional Edition as being designed for the SMB. It goes onto describe Enterprise as for "medium and large" businesses, a language they use elsewhere to describe business with 5,000 desktops or more. I get the view this isn't the space the above poster is in. If you buy a business computer, it will come with Windows Professional Edition - it's pointed out in this link that Enterprise Edition is only available to a Volume Licensing customer (noting there are purchase costs beyond what people are used to paying). I don't disagree with you in principle that a conscious person should look in this direction, but Enterprise is beyond the reach of many users. It's beyond the reach of a home user, it's beyond the reach of a business small enough that it doesn't want to buy into a bulk program and it's beyond the reach of a large enterprise that feels they've already spend enough on Microsoft licensing by buying "Professional" systems. They noted they had "zero interest in getting involved with enterprise-level", I have no reason to believe two minutes on Google would change anything for them. [0] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/05/13/introducing-windows-10-editions/#gKtrdwWscfCqDytx.97 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/05/13/intro...

tinus_hn 7y ago

If by turn off you mean turn off some of it, yes.

Silhouette 7y ago

I hope you are not the IT decision maker. It seems all of your knowledge of Windows is based from experience with their Home edition. We make IT decisions just fine, thanks. We just operate in a different environment to the one you're used to. We run Windows 7 Pro on our current Windows desktops, but not because we also use Windows server and the centralised management facilities. As I mentioned in another comment, we have no such thing as a standard desktop deployment in our environment, so aside from saving a small amount of time deploying security updates that we almost certainly do want everywhere, it offers few advantages. Windows 10 Pro is not like Windows 7 Pro. Windows 10 Pro does not have the kinds of configurability that small businesses like ours require. Windows 10 Enterprise is effectively a different product to the Windows 10 Pro and Home editions, but the kinds of administrative and commercial arrangements it brings are also not something we want to get involved with.