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The unfortunate thing is that Windows RT is completely un-manageable, in the only way any Windows Sysadmin cares: group policy. For most sysadmins, the fact th
by clauretano 14y ago
The unfortunate thing is that Windows RT is completely un-manageable, in the only way any Windows Sysadmin cares: group policy.
For most sysadmins, the fact that Windows RT cannot join a domain and cannot be managed with GPOs/SCCM makes it a nonstarter.
It's fairly easy to manage iOS devices with any number of MDM tools.
- zmmmmm 14y agoWow, I didn't know that. It's terrible that iOS devices are more manageable in an enterprise than an RT device. I would have thought it would be bullet point #1 on the feature list. It's kind of telling really. RT seems very confused - shipping with Office seems to target it at business users. But being unsuable in a corporate environment makes it only viable as a consumer device. But then it's very expensive as a consumer device. Perhaps in the end it's just not right for anybody and that is the answer to why it's not sold well.
- damian2000 14y agoI think Surface Pro (i.e Windows 8) was meant to be their 'business' tablet OS though ... Win RT is sort of a halfway house for home users that want some form of windows compatibility.
- tl 14y ago> It's fairly easy to manage iOS devices with any number of MDM tools. You mean it's fairly easy to manage a (small but slowly growing) list of privileges that Apple provides and impossible otherwise.
- eitally 14y agoThere's this, and then there's also the fact that it's a large investment to replace desktops or laptops en masse with something brand new. Even corporations that have a form hardware refresh policy typically only replace user computers on a rolling 3 or 4 year cycle. Besides day to day management (patching, A/V, GPOs, etc), what the inability to join a domain means for large companies is that they cannot track what they have in use in any useful way, primarily the useful way that Microsoft cares about when it comes to Enterprise Agreement negotiations. This is a huge bugbear, but one that millions of companies have to deal with triannually.