Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes

Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:40AM (#16707931)

The features aren't a bad thing, it's good to have them, and it's good to have an OS finally that improves more than once every four years. I have no real issue with their efforts towards supporting 3D printing natively, for instance, even though I currently can't use it myself.

It's the anti-features I have a problem with, like the fact that Candy Crush has to be preinstalled on each domain user in a corporate environment. The general unreliability of the build cycle needs some serious rethinking as well, right now it takes five months to get from a new build to a stable release... and builds are only six months apart.

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Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by gruez on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:22PM (#16708286)

Since you're a corporate user, why not use LTSC?

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Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:40PM (#16708473)

First, LTSB requires an Enterprise license, which most corporations haven't traditionally sprung for. (It actually costs a little more than Enterprise, actually.) Microsoft seems to be trying to pressure corporations into it, but most businesses use the Pro licenses that come with their PCs, which has traditionally been more than adequate.

Second, LTSB is not really intended for general desktop use, even in a corporate environment. LTSB is intended for devices like MRI machines and the like which need Windows, and the latest security updates, but literally no improvements whatsoever otherwise.

Ideally, corporate users should remain roughly one major Windows 10 release behind the current one, but of course, three times in the last six months, Microsoft has broken the updater and updated PCs to the latest build despite group policy prohibiting it.

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