Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

Post by mschuster91 » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 1:30 PM UTC

4ad wrote: post #31

I don't need this. What I need is a legal way to acquire Windows 10 Long Term Support Branch. Basically Windows 10 without all the crap. No metro, and no feature updates whatsoever, just security updates, and supported for 10 years. Sort of like a Windows version of RHEL, if you will. Now that is something that I want. To play a numbers game, I'd pay $500 for that if it came with HyperV and the possibility of creatin…

Post by tokenizerrr » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 1:32 PM UTC

HelloNurse wrote: post #93

tokenizerrr wrote: post #75

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I understand and agree that it's bullshit. But for normal end users it works fine. And part of me does think that I prefer the majority of the clueless end users to be forced to update. Having to support outdated operating systems and browsers is pretty horrible. And making it harder for botnets to spread is also a pretty good thing. But yes, there should just be a simple setting. Sadly there isn't so we're left to r…

But realistically the clueless "normal" end users who should update automatically don't know about group policies and aren't going to use them, not even by mistake.

Post by detaro » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

tgtweak wrote: post #64

silly_giraffe wrote: post #38

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Except for us crazy individuals that need the computer on for uninterrupted data processing. I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset. There is no intermediate data backup, so if the job is killed, I have to start over. My only reliable option has been to keep it off the network.

I have deactivated the auto update restart logic by gpo policy (locally) and just hit escape on the update summary when it's done downloading. Now they just blue screen it every month and it does the update when you're forced to restart it. Really pathetic considering I had windows 8.1 pro on it before with 3+ months uptime and no need to restart beyond 3rd party software requiring it or drivers/hardware.

Post by dhimes » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

mdek wrote: post #24

Will this address the absurd automatic updates/reboot "feature"? I've had the experience multiple times where a step away for a few minutes and come back to a blank desktop, even during the "active hours" period. This is especially infuriating when I do most of my work in a vbox slackware VM and win10 is just a host that I want to stay out of the way; instead I lose my entire current state. This seems like a major de…

Post by tgtweak » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 1:41 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #105

tgtweak wrote: post #64

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I have deactivated the auto update restart logic by gpo policy (locally) and just hit escape on the update summary when it's done downloading. Now they just blue screen it every month and it does the update when you're forced to restart it. Really pathetic considering I had windows 8.1 pro on it before with 3+ months uptime and no need to restart beyond 3rd party software requiring it or drivers/hardware.

They bluescreen it? Or maybe the drivers are different (or your hardware is broken)? I see no regular bluescreens on Windows 10 devices.