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To solve this, they have an upgrade you can get called "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations". Costs a little over $300. Quoting the blog post on windows.com: "You
by apk-d 7y ago
To solve this, they have an upgrade you can get called "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations". Costs a little over $300. Quoting the blog post on windows.com:
"You will see for Windows 10 Pro for Workstations productivity and enterprise focused applications in place of consumer applications and games. This was one of the top feedback shared with us by our partners and users and we're delivering this in our next update"
Last time I tried it, it still tried to install candy crush and such, but somehow failed, resulting in a glitchy start menu. That was a while ago, though.
- panpanna 7y agoI wonder what engineers working on vscode and wsl feel when they run into people working on OS monetization in the company restaurant... What do you need to say in your interview to be assigned to the latter team?
- martius 7y agoWhat do they feel? What about being thankful for being a revenue stream, it allows us to work on more free (as in beer) and open source developer tools
- thejosh 7y agoIt's almost like paying for an operating system should somehow be the payment itself.
- martius 7y agoI'm not saying that this is a good revenue model nor that I support it. I'm saying that employees of a company probably don't antagonize the others like that.
- m0xte 7y agoIts not free if we sell out with our data and attention.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoSeems similar to being thankful that the mafia’s criminal acts help fund its philanthropy in the community.
- dhdhebsb 7y agoThere’s a company restaurant?
- Nextgrid 7y ago> You will see for Windows 10 Pro for Workstations productivity and enterprise focused applications in place of consumer applications and games. This means there will still be spam in the start menu, just a different kind of it? Wow.
- ppfrc 7y agoJust use LTSC. No Cortana, no Store, no Edge, and obviously no Candy Crush--in fact, no Metro apps to speak which, not even the Calculator (instead you get the one from Windows 7)
- glogla 7y agoBut can I get that on my personal laptop?
- mavhc 7y agoYou can pay for Windows updates by having ads, or by paying for Enterprise edition every year. Or realise that you should have switched to Linux already. Or overpay for your hardware and get a Mac, prepay for 5 years of OS updates today!
- ppfrc 7y agoI pirated it.
- kgwxd 7y agoI really hope you didn't harm anyone on the boat.
- Nextgrid 7y agoHow do you get a license for that? As far as I know you can't easily. You need to find a reseller and there's a minimum amount of licenses you need to buy so you can't just buy one. I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this. There's basically zero effort involved in setting up a credit card payment form that gives out product keys, and there'd be at least some demand for it.
- Krssst 7y agoSince Windows 7 is going to lose security updates, I have been looking at what to replace it with. My main use case being games (actual work and internet being on Debian). What I found was that Windows Server seems to cut most of the features I do not want in Windows (Cortana, Windows Store and Microsoft accounts, OneDrive...) while still being purchasable on Amazon (although at 3-6 times the price). There are several issues (drivers and application compatibility, various settings have to be changed to match the "regular" Windows behavior), but so far I prefer it a lot to regular Windows 10.
- swiley 7y agoOh my god just use wine. This is getting ridiculous!
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoSadly still not compatible with all applications.
- swiley 7y agoMaybe it’s time to find alternates? I have a really hard time imagining there’s anything other than specialized control software that won’t run on Linux and is worth that.
- Krssst 7y agoI just realized my message was wrong in the context. The price was not 3 times 300$ but 3 times the regular price of a Windows 10 Family license. Basically, the price I am seeing on Amazon is 345$.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoI do not precisely disagree; I personally have exactly zero Windows machines left. But I know people for whom that transition would mean replacing the majority of the software that they use every day, and for less-technical folks that's going to hurt. Story time. I know a small business owner who uses WordPerfect, FileMaker (database), and who needs a Java web applet that interfaces with a hardware device and backends into a government database in order to do their job. Now, I would 100% be thrilled to move them from WordPerfect to LibreOffice, but they have 20-year-old macros that we'd have to port. Then FileMaker: I guess something could be done with sqlite? But now we're talking custom software solutions to replace something that a non-developer could drive before. And the Java applet... well, that's gonna hurt regardless, but it talks to hardware which means that it'll need drivers, and the government isn't going to support anything but the bare minimum, so that may never move. In my experience, 90% of software is totally possible to port or replace. Unfortunately, that last 10% (games, drivers, business-critical app written for MS-DOS 6.22) tends to be what makes or breaks the migration.
- gruez 7y ago>To solve this, they have an upgrade you can get called "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations". Costs a little over $300. At that price point you might as well get the LTSC version instead, which has none of that and has 10 years of security patches without needing to install feature updates.