Posted on 05/13/2015 8:14:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Microsoft's big sales pitch with Windows 10 is that it's one platform, with one consistent experience and one app store to get your software from.
But when it comes to buying the actual product, there will be seven different versions, Microsoft says in a blog post.
Here they are:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Perhaps, Microsoft should purchase Baskin-Robbins so that it can have 31 flavors.
I think you have made an excellent analysis.
> I think you have made an excellent analysis.
Yeah I would second that as well -- at least in terms of number of units, it's very likely to come true.
The enterprise editions will be a slow uptake -- business is mighty skeptical after Windows 8 and the lost productivity Metro brought.
Then again, it's possible the mobile versions -will- take off, at least enough to represent a fair fraction of the mobiles out there. Microsoft is bringing a lot of cool and/or useful stuff to the table. But success in numbers depends on whether people actually want what Microsoft brings to the table
Seven times the normal problems with Windows.
Or I could just download a Linux distro and be done with the Windows jerkarama.
At this point, all my critical apps run on Linux and are free.
Free software is like free puppies.
I think the adoption rate of the enterprise version will be slow because business will be skeptical of relying on the cloud, and won't want to pay the monthly fee for cloud services they're not going to use, preferring to keep their data on-prem.
I'll predict that the business adoption rate of Windows 10 will be even faster that the Windows 7 pace. Most businesses skipped Windows 8 completely, just like they did Vista, and upgraded from XP to 7.
They'll be all over upgrading to 10 to take advantage of the free upgrade offer in the first year, but I expect to see a lot of it be the Pro version.
Oh, for the love of...
I mean, it’s really not as bad as it appears once you break it down to the fact that they’re combining desktop/laptop, mobile, and embedded all under the same umbrella, but this whole idea of more “flavors” of an OS than Baskin Robbins has never been a good one, and I would have thought they’d have learned their lessons by now.
Get ready to see the most trimmed down, basic version coming pre-installed on gaming systems along with customers demanding they need the high end enterprise version for basic Internet and email usage on their laptops.
“Or I could just download a Linux distro and be done with the Windows jerkarama.”
As I did. I recently attended a swapmeet and bought a Dell Optiplex GX620 with dual Pentium core and 4GB of memory for the princely sum of $15. I wiped off Windows XP while installing the very latest version of Ubuntu Mate 15.04. It works great. Where’s the downside? Microsoft, KMA!!!
I would be just as happy to bash Comcast.
“The snippet only listed six versions...?”
HTML formatting is your friend ... or not.
“There could be a hundred the way you can code one program and then remove certain code with just a keyword.”
Not with Mobile and IOT.
Have they worked out the kinks so that printers, CD card readers work without having to scour the internet?
It’s been a long time since I considered Linux.
Ubuntu Mate 15.04 (Good stuff?)
Good day to you mate.
“Have they worked out the kinks so that printers, CD card readers work without having to scour the internet?”
I have found adding USB printers to Ubuntu and Linux Mint to be automatic and therefore could not be easier, if someone in the Linux community has added the definitions for the model you have. When it works, it is easier than Windows. The number of supported brands and models is quite extensive. Once you click “Add Printer” it interrogates and identifies the printer and downloads the driver. It took me one minute to install an HP Laserjet P1102w printer. Those drivers are sometimes generic and while the printer works fine, you may not have all the bells and whistles the printer is capable of, such as displaying ink or toner levels, that Windows would offer The limitation is not Linux per se, but the quality of driver that some volunteer writes for it. I have never had a problem installing an HP printer on Linux.
I have not tried card readers.
“It’s been a long time since I considered Linux.”
I have seen steady improvements. I recommend trying both Ubuntu and Mint to see which you like best.
“Ubuntu Mate 15.04 (Good stuff?)”
It seems to be, I just upgraded to that yesterday. I like the Mate desktop in both Ubuntu and Mint - if you like the Windows XP interface, you should like Mate. It also requires fewer resources to run than some of the other interfaces.
No.
In fact, this is where they make the MOST money.
The enterprise is nothing more than the volume license for the client they sell to most corporations with more than 100 workstations.
So anyone using KMS, MAK or other volume activation methods use the Enterprise version--in other words, the most sold.
If you want to use AppLocker, DirectAccess, BranchCache, managed image deployment and a dozen other large-scale technologies, you'll need the Enterprise version.
Most enterprises will be upgrading to Windows 10 Enterprise version about the time that Microsoft releases Windows 11. . . That's when they will feel safe about doing it.
There won’t be a Windows 11.
Windows as a Service was announced last week. Upgrades to features, UI, and other components will happen ad hoc.
Supposedly you can update from 8.1 to 10 for free at some point.
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