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If I understood the article correctly, you can re-enable this by making a purchase on the Microsoft Store. All stakeholders win. Licensor. OEM. Microsoft. We ma

by sevensor 11mo ago

If I understood the article correctly, you can re-enable this by making a purchase on the Microsoft Store. All stakeholders win. Licensor. OEM. Microsoft. We made the pie bigger! Well, maybe not so great for the end user or the IT department.

ocdtrekkie 11mo ago
Let's just say unless you are buying Windows Enterprise the deployment method of this is basically unmanageable for businesses. Like... individuals need their own Microsoft accounts to buy it for their own PC sort of unmanageable. There's a way to volume license HEVC but only for very specific enterprise categories, others just can't.
- trvz 11mo ago
  No one is forcing businesses to buy brands that are unmanagable.
  - ocdtrekkie 11mo ago
    In almost every other way, Dell is probably the most manageable hardware OEM. Fantastic support for automatable, scripted driver and firmware updates, a very consistent and unified platform, easily hot-swappable parts, and a great on-site repair coverage. I think what's happening here is not that HP and Dell don't want to pay the four cents a device, but as it reflects a 20% price increase in the license, they are "drawing a line" for the license company that increasing cost will cost them money, not make them money. I suspect if it works this problem will resolve itself next year, it just sucks for customers.
xp84 11mo ago
I don’t think that’s true. I think if you buy that you are getting software decoding which is going to be worse and consume more power.
hurfdurf 11mo ago
>you can re-enable this by making a purchase on the Microsoft Store. That is just a software decoder running on the CPU. HP and Dell are effectively killing any way to hardware-decode (and encode?) HEVC on these models. Which is a thing you want on a power- and heat-limited device such as a laptop.
- sevensor 11mo ago
  I understood the article to say that it was a driver that enabled the hardware and not a software decoder.

ocdtrekkie 11mo ago

Let's just say unless you are buying Windows Enterprise the deployment method of this is basically unmanageable for businesses. Like... individuals need their own Microsoft accounts to buy it for their own PC sort of unmanageable. There's a way to volume license HEVC but only for very specific enterprise categories, others just can't.

trvz 11mo ago
No one is forcing businesses to buy brands that are unmanagable.
- ocdtrekkie 11mo ago
  In almost every other way, Dell is probably the most manageable hardware OEM. Fantastic support for automatable, scripted driver and firmware updates, a very consistent and unified platform, easily hot-swappable parts, and a great on-site repair coverage. I think what's happening here is not that HP and Dell don't want to pay the four cents a device, but as it reflects a 20% price increase in the license, they are "drawing a line" for the license company that increasing cost will cost them money, not make them money. I suspect if it works this problem will resolve itself next year, it just sucks for customers.

xp84 11mo ago

I don’t think that’s true. I think if you buy that you are getting software decoding which is going to be worse and consume more power.

hurfdurf 11mo ago

>you can re-enable this by making a purchase on the Microsoft Store. That is just a software decoder running on the CPU. HP and Dell are effectively killing any way to hardware-decode (and encode?) HEVC on these models. Which is a thing you want on a power- and heat-limited device such as a laptop.

sevensor 11mo ago
I understood the article to say that it was a driver that enabled the hardware and not a software decoder.