Re:Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users ...
by Nextgrid on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @12:55PM
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Obtaining Windows Enterprise legally is tricky if you're not a big corporation. It's not even a money thing, it's that they outright won't sell you a license directly, instead you have to go to a reseller and then pad the order with cheap client access licenses to reach the minimum amount of licenses required for an order.
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Re:Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users ...
by rsync on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:35PM
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Here is a relevant thread that goes into how complicated it is to purchase:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
Re:Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users ...
by rsync on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:29PM
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What if you subscribe to technet (or whatever they call it now ? MSDN ?) ... don't you get one license to everything ?
The last time I paid for MSDN was 2011 or 2012 but I was able to download and use everything ...
Re:Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users ...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:33PM
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Visual Studio (formerly MSDN) subscriptions come with purpose-specific (for software development and/or testing, depending on the subscription) licenses for lots of things (exactly what also depends on the tier, IIRC).
The usage constraints are mostly social/legal rather than technical, of course.
Re:Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users ...
by skrowl on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:16PM
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Visual Studio subscription is effectively $200/yr if you use Azure at all. It's $800/yr, but you get a $50/month Azure credit. It's not hard to use $50/month worth of Azure stuff.