Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha...
by BenjiWiebe on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:06PM
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If non-store apps get blocked and if it takes more than an opt-in to unblock them, that will be the end of Windows. Enterprise software is far from being Windows Metro ready. Really really far from it. We rely on some software that hasn't been updated since Windows 98 era. It works fine, we can't find a good replacement for it, and we'd be really upset if we had to quit using it arbitrarily...
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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha...
by walterbell on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:04PM
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Nothing official yet, possibly a fee for Windows 10 Pro, https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/3/16968024/microsoft-windows...
"Microsoft is planning a new “S Mode” for Windows 10 Home, Enterprise, and Pro. This S Mode will essentially lock down any copy of Windows 10 so it can only run apps from the Microsoft Store, and does exactly what the dedicated Windows 10 S operating system was built to do ... Microsoft is reportedly planning to allow Windows 10 Home users to disable the S Mode free of charge, but Windows 10 Pro customers with S Mode enabled on their device will be forced to pay $49 to get access to a full version of Windows 10 Pro."