I know Enterprise can be bought for as few as 5 users, so I'm curious about your comment regarding affordability. Just how much does the non-subscription version of Enterprise cost per user? I know the subscription version costs $7-12 monthly per user depending on the number of users. If the non-subscription version's not too costly I am seriously contemplating buying a 5-pack for my systems (provided of course that individuals can even purchase Enterprise - does anyone know?). No, I don't see any way that MS will ever extend support for Win7 and allow another XP-like situation.
at this point, and if there is not a LTSB enterprise, education is the only way to go, even, it has cortana disabled
All these changes make me wonder how long Microsoft is planning to support native win32 code on windows platform. More and more win32 based system components are being replaced with modern "apps" in each new build. I guess we will end up with with windows kernel and pure xaml shell eventually...
Given that 'legacy' Win32 apps are in the majority of cases the reason why people are stuck with Windows, I'm thinking they won't do it anytime soon. If in the near future Windows removes Win32 support then I don't see any reason why users wouldn't switch to Linux. If they have to experience the pain of finding alternative apps anyway, then why not full-featured Linux ones than limited sandboxed Modern ones?
I agree with this sentiment. I want to know if there's a way to just BUY an Enterprise or Education key. I'm no fan of Windows 10 Pro, Slave Edition.
Here some IT shops are selling it, mostly with Software Assurance (price: €320 for enterprise upgrade with 2 years SA). No idea if you can get it without entering a volume license contract. Also I think I read somewhere that the new subscription offering will include 5 licenses per user.
DNS requests are sent to the HOSTS file for each request. Its data is not cached, so no reboot is need. Changes take effect immediately. Anyway, please be nice.
Enterprise and Educational versions are now the only Win10 options. What about Server 2016 turned into a workstation? Since 2008r2 it's a pretty light OS out of the box.
I just replicated what he did, and even ran a "ipconfig /flushdns" in elevated mode with this in my HOSTS file: 0.0.0.0 google.se Shut down edge and restarted it, it still resolves to google and bypasses the HOSTS file. I have done it again and again, trust me, he's right 100% Try it yourself. EDIT: Final test, did all of the above, and rebooted the machine, did a ipconfig /flushdns again, and guess what, It still resolves to google, it totally disregards the added entry to the HOSTS file.