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I went out looking for how much the enterprise (or business) version would cost as I expected those versions would (hopefully) have all this crap removed. Am I

I went out looking for how much the enterprise (or business) version would cost as I expected those versions would (hopefully) have all this crap removed. Am I wrong in finding you can no longer just buy the enterprise or business version? They want you to either buy a device with it on it or contact their sales rep? Maybe this has always been the casse and I never noticed because most previous versions didn't have this crap on it. Very disappointing.

noncoml 4y ago
Can’t access the website, so don’t know what crap we are talking about, but Windows Pro for Workstations, which anyone can purchase, doesn’t have any third party crap installed. Only some MS crap. Much less overall.
- cowsup 4y ago
  We are talking about the MS crap, actually.
  - noncoml 4y ago
    ok, yeah I see now that the website is back up
wongarsu 4y ago
There is basically Windows Home, Pro and Pro for Workstations. There's also Enterprise and Education, but those seems to be the same as Pro for Workstations, just distributed differently. Windows 11 Pro is about $150 from official channels, or $30 for a key from a reseller, and the key can just upgrade your Windows Home install. It doesn't automatically fix everything, but it gives you the group policy editor which lets you permanently turn lots of things off. It also generally treats you more like a responsible adult, e.g. giving you more control over windows updates.
- blibble 4y ago
  I've heard the $2 LTSC keys on aliexpress activate without issue
  - olyjohn 4y ago
    Why pay $2 for a key which is still illegal to use? Just download a precracked version.
    - dagw 4y ago
      Because using a pirated key on a Windows I downloaded from Microsoft is a lot less likely to introduce trojans or viruses on my system, compared to downloading a pre-cracked Windows from a a pirate site.
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  Maybe because I previously had Windows 10 on it, but I found a github repo related to Microsoft activator scripts which simply activated windows. It's an open source batch script, seems to have worked. Surely it wouldn't be on github if it were illegal.
  - userbinator 4y ago
    It technically probably is, but MS would still rather you pirate Windows than use Linux.

noncoml 4y ago

Can’t access the website, so don’t know what crap we are talking about, but Windows Pro for Workstations, which anyone can purchase, doesn’t have any third party crap installed. Only some MS crap. Much less overall.

cowsup 4y ago
We are talking about the MS crap, actually.
- noncoml 4y ago
  ok, yeah I see now that the website is back up

wongarsu 4y ago

There is basically Windows Home, Pro and Pro for Workstations. There's also Enterprise and Education, but those seems to be the same as Pro for Workstations, just distributed differently. Windows 11 Pro is about $150 from official channels, or $30 for a key from a reseller, and the key can just upgrade your Windows Home install. It doesn't automatically fix everything, but it gives you the group policy editor which lets you permanently turn lots of things off. It also generally treats you more like a responsible adult, e.g. giving you more control over windows updates.

blibble 4y ago
I've heard the $2 LTSC keys on aliexpress activate without issue
- olyjohn 4y ago
  Why pay $2 for a key which is still illegal to use? Just download a precracked version.
  - dagw 4y ago
    Because using a pirated key on a Windows I downloaded from Microsoft is a lot less likely to introduce trojans or viruses on my system, compared to downloading a pre-cracked Windows from a a pirate site.
unethical_ban 4y ago
Maybe because I previously had Windows 10 on it, but I found a github repo related to Microsoft activator scripts which simply activated windows. It's an open source batch script, seems to have worked. Surely it wouldn't be on github if it were illegal.
- userbinator 4y ago
  It technically probably is, but MS would still rather you pirate Windows than use Linux.