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Recently switch to Windows, and my feeling is the "Pro" moniker in the OS title has as much weight as in "iPhone Pro". Under the hood there's price discriminat
by makeitdouble 4y ago
Recently switch to Windows, and my feeling is the "Pro" moniker in the OS title has as much weight as in "iPhone Pro".
Under the hood there's price discrimination on the Hypervisor and other services that regular users wouldn't use, but there seems fundamentally to be no difference in the interface between the two versions of the OS.
I'd assume enterprise customers (the real "pros") will have their IT department deal with removing all the crap and adjusting the group policy so the experience is somewhat productive. So Microsoft doesn't have to care at all about "productivity", and is free to bombard users with all the crapware of the worlds as long as there's some remote way to disable it.
- zokier 4y agoEnterprises have their own edition which leaves Pro to be just prosumer.
- yanellena 4y agoI have Enterprise 11 on a non managed device and I can't really recognise many of the comments here. No news or pre-loaded spam apps. It's actually a pretty good experience.
- nailer 4y agoI have a Microsoft Surface device and I recognise all of them. Literally would pay more (kind of feel like I already have) to avoid advertising. If they sold Surfaces with Enterprise by default I'd be happy.
- spacechild1 4y agoSame for me. I have been using Windows 10 Pro on various laptops and I have never seen any ads or other kinds of bullshit. I always thought that these were only a thing in Windows home editions?
- makeitdouble 4y agoThanks, so it's really their segmentation of the market. I saw the Enterprise version of the Surface when buying mine, but didn't expect the internal OS was also different. The price was pretty stiff, so it looks like I got priced out of the reasonable default experience.
- TheRealDunkirk 4y ago> I'd assume enterprise customers (the real "pros") will have their IT department deal with removing all the crap and adjusting the group policy so the experience is somewhat productive. Ha ha ha. You know what happens when you "assume," right? I work for a Fortune 250 with 30K employees. We just "upgraded" the fleet at the start of the year. We're getting all the crap by default. It takes about 10 seconds for Edge to start and show the landing page with all of the stupid garbage. At least they NO LONGER prevent us from changing the start page on our browsers, and you can turn off the start menu crap. The only thing I can figure is that they got a discount on the licensing for leaving this stuff enabled. Like the general public, I assume that most people inside the company just live it.
- Kye 4y agoHome lacks the group policy editor that's key to fixing so many Windows troubles. That's the only UI difference I know of.