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I can’t imagine that corporations would allow Microsoft to market to their end-users. There must be some ultra-premium edition of Windows 10 that one can buy, w
by Silhouette 7y ago
I can’t imagine that corporations would allow Microsoft to market to their end-users. There must be some ultra-premium edition of Windows 10 that one can buy, where telemetry and ads are fully disabled?
More-or-less. The large organisation editions of Windows 10 (Enterprise and Education) are basically a different product to the others, with most of the unpalatable junk able to be disabled. But you can only legally get them through the organisation-level licensing schemes, with all the extra cost and hassle that brings.
The really surprising thing to me is that the Pro edition -- the one that historically was aimed at power users and smaller businesses -- is basically dumped in with Home now, with little of that same flexibility even though these users probably have much the same concerns about controlling updates, telemetry, ads, etc.
So for some of us working in small businesses, Windows 10 remains a no-go area regardless of any attempts by Microsoft to promote it and demote anything else. It appears to be impossible to retain proper control of your system and the data on it, which leads to all kinds of concerns about reliability, security, statutory and contractual data protection obligations, etc. Presumably this is why various government regulators within the EU are already going after Microsoft on the basis that it's essentially impossible to be GDPR compliant if your organisation is using such an OS.