Blech, this is not sexy marketing. How do you do a press announcement with no pictures of said greatness? Its pretty pointless to describe your software product with paragraphs.
Introducing Windows 10 Editions
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#72Blech, this is not sexy marketing. How do you do a press announcement with no pictures of said greatness? Its pretty pointless to describe your software product with paragraphs.
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#73So if Windows 10 home and pro are both free upgrades, why are they separate? I get the rest is so they can call their mobile OS the same as they call their desktop OS and segmenting enterprise, but why the home/pro distinction?
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#74Dear Microsoft, Windows 10. Just release Windows 10. No one knows the difference between Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Extreme and Windows 10 Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Supreme. Your customers actually don't care. And as long as you keep selling a baffling array of variations on the same product, no one will believe you've turned over a new leaf. Windows 10. With love, Guy on the Internet PS:…
Beautifully put.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Define "Feature Reduced"? Lack of Domain? HyperV? Remote Desktop options? What features are people "losing" with Home that 95% of "Home" users "need"? Sure... You and I can't live without half of those things, but home users generally won't notice - or care - if HyperV is missing. You pay more for Pro/Enterprise because it has added features that Power Users/Businesses need. Glass Half Empty/Full... Potato/Patato...…
Remote Desktop is almost essential for "home" users, as it allows remote guidance through the computer. >You pay more for Pro/Enterprise because it has added features that Power Users/Businesses need. Do you really? When negotiating large licenses with volume discounts, does Microsoft really end up charging more for each install than they do with the Home options? How many consumers pay for the Pro or Enterprise vers…
Enterprise/Education will only be available through organization based license agreements... not really for individuals. As to Home/Pro, I mostly agree... I wouldn't mind seeing a base version that's effectively Pro... considering the domain is a server license with additional CALs required anyway (SAMBA aside).
That, or just sell the pro services as an upgrade package for windows, instead of a separate OS package... I know it's all in the details, just the same it can/should be more transparent.
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#76OK they messed it up, again? Anyone with a laptop preloaded with the crippled Home edition (meaning most laptops) will not be able to take it to the work place and connect it to the domain. Then there's Pro and Enterprise, and most people don't know why they need Enterprise.
why would you take your home computer and connect it to the workplace?
I do this all the time.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It reminds me of the Model Year - We're still on Windows Model Year 2008.
Windows 10 was version 6.4 internally but it sounds like they're going to go make it 10.0 on release. (Windows 8.1 is 6.3 and Windows 7 is 6.1 and Vista is 6.0)
That's not correct - Tech Preview already shows the version 10.0.build#
Conceptually Windows 10 would/could have been 6.4, but it isn't.
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#78OK they messed it up, again? Anyone with a laptop preloaded with the crippled Home edition (meaning most laptops) will not be able to take it to the work place and connect it to the domain. Then there's Pro and Enterprise, and most people don't know why they need Enterprise.
why would you take your home computer and connect it to the workplace?
BYOD (bring your own device) is the big noise in corporate IT, has been for a while. Now, it started with iPhones and macs and iPads, but if your staff have, for example, a Surface Pro 3 they like to use, you want some way for them to be able to use it in the corporate network environment, right?
Now, I'd question whether the right way to handle that is to join it to the Windows domain (I'd question whether having a Windows domain is the right way to handle ANYTHING in fact), but it's definitely a part of the corporate IT landscape nowadays, and MS should have some sort of a story for how you can do it.
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#79OK they messed it up, again? Anyone with a laptop preloaded with the crippled Home edition (meaning most laptops) will not be able to take it to the work place and connect it to the domain. Then there's Pro and Enterprise, and most people don't know why they need Enterprise.
This is against so many IT security best practices, you're probably breaking a regulation if you're in an industry not dealing with selling jewelry on Etsy.
While you're right, BYOD has been an on-going headache in IT for several years now. It's one thing to say unapproved devices are completely not allowed, but reality is when the CEO brings in their shiny new iPad and demands it get on the office wifi, the iPad gets onto the network (however heavily segmented and firewalled).
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Making money. You don't know how to.
Actually, he has a point. Too many choices can harm sales significantly. Granted, in Microsoft's position, it's not as applicable. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/research-too-many-choi... https://blog.kissmetrics.com/too-many-choices/
There really aren't a lot of choices though. This isn't like Windows 7. If you're running Windows 10 at home you have two options: Home or Pro. That's it.