3 ms·

If you can get a license for it and if the software will run on it.

• selfhoster11 5y ago
  You can buy a license just fine (with some finagling) from a reseller, even though it's pricey. I don't see any reason why your software should refuse to run under LTSC, unless it's too reliant on parts of the OS that shouldn't be depended on anyway. I've had games etc run just fine on it.
  • Jtsummers 5y ago
    > I don't see any reason why your software should refuse to run under LTSC, unless it's too reliant on parts of the OS that shouldn't be depended on anyway. I've had games etc run just fine on it. Which seems to be the standard for a lot of proprietary software. The objectives are to: get the software shipped ASAP, lock in the users. This often means cutting corner. For instance, if there's a Windows public API to see who's logged in and their permissions that works across OSes they might use that, but you can also check the username directly. Or, what I've seen, they'll check the home directory path and assume that's the user that's logged in. Oops, the home directory moved between OS versions so our "test who's logged in" method only works on Windows ??? and not the more recent versions or even older versions. But that's fine, our customers are paying us $10k/seat and have no alternatives. Some users may find a workaround, but most won't.