Windows 10: Windows 10 S officially announced

This does not interest me, its just a stripped down version for a smaller footprint, in essence this is a marketing strategy by M$, eyeing up in particular schools and colleges where there is a nice fat juicy market to be conquered.

All the safety features mentioned are already available in W10, others such as Hello and fingerprint recognition are available in Surface Pro 4.

What does interest me is obtaining a Surface Studio, the impression I get is they don't seem interested in selling it to the general public here in the UK.

 

Yup, people will buy them because they are cheap and then proceed to complain they can't run anything on them.

 

I'm actually really liking this idea, if you want full windows then you can just upgrade, if not you are locked into an environment that is hard to screw up - for old parents and kids this is going to cut our fix the pc time as they can't install stuff they shouldn't of.

 

There's a big difference between Windows 10 S and Windows 10 RT: you can upgrade Windows 10 S to Pro if you want.

 

I don't like the sound of these from the FAQ:

Even Windows 8.1 Bing would let you change the search provider.

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That is true. But I can already see the complaints, "why do I have to buy another version of Windows so that I can use WIndows the way that I always have?".

 

For sure, people will upgrade to 10 after the big disappontment. Good thing they can upgrade rather than get stuck with something they can't use.

 

You mean like a chromebook? The market this is aimed at?

Unlike Windows RT, this can run Win32 apps (other than office). But, the vendor has to package them into store packages.

 

True that. So I guess, bad guys will start targeting the Store so that people will come to them to fix their Windows 10S PC. *Smile

 

Frankly, I cannot see this getting any traction in the Student market as gaming is a big part of student life. Would you be able to run Steam?

It will not be long before people recognise how useless a pc without win32 is.

Out of interest would a win 10 S pc be locked down to extent you could not install proper windows?

 

How the hell are you going to install printer drivers as most are 32bit.

Chromebook had this problem but you could get around it using google cloud print.

But how would you install cloud print drivers on this device?

 

They said It can be upgrade to Windows 10 Pro and the surface laptop that ships with 10s gives you the option to upgrade for free - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/d/product/90FC23DV6SNZ/3VJJ?WT

 

I just read that and it says 1GB=1000,000,000 bytes which of course is strictly correct but Windows has always used 1024x1024x1024 bytes for GB. They have just understated the capacity of their devices by 7% - LOL

 

Of course the Unit Abbreviation for the measurement formally known as GB is now of course GiB,

This is done to confuse everyone so that Joe Public is more aware of the actual capacity of the HDD *sarc *092

 

I agree, I can't imagine why anyone would look twice at a windows where you cannot run your own traditional desktop software on. Also MS needs to make their store and modern apps much more reliable if they want this to take off. I find their own modern apps and their store to be the part of Windows 10 that gives our familyt most grief on our home machines. For example last week things like Money, News, Weather, Sport all received app updates. On both machines they updated fine on my user account. For the rest of the family user account none of these apps would launch unless they were reset. Took ages to sort. And I've seen this happen on other native apps in the past too. Out of the blue my wife could no longer connect to store the other day without resetting the app. And then same happened to my son. MS needs to get this stuff right or this variant of the OS will frustrate people & never take off.