yes, windows works that way. windows administrators think very differently than Linux administrators. source: I'm both. you can, however, use tools provided

yes, windows works that way. windows administrators think very differently than Linux administrators. source: I'm both. you can, however, use tools provided by Microsoft to customize windows deployment images, to an extent. Windows Core OS will make that much more possible, if it is made available by itself, which may or may not happen; I don't know what their plans are for Core OS.