Windows 10 S Vs Windows 10: What's The Difference?

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Windows 10 S Vs Windows 10: What's The Difference?

There’s a new Windows in town. ‘Windows 10 S’ is Microsoft ’s attempt to strip back Windows 10 and compete with Google’s increasingly popular ChromeOS in budget, business and education sectors. The result? Windows 10 S sounds a lot like Windows 10, but in reality they are two very different operating systems…
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Microsoft has yet to reveal what Windows 10 S stands for, but ‘Speed’ would be as good a choice as any. Windows 10 S will boot in just 15 seconds. It is built on the same core as Windows 10 but is more lightweight, running on lesser hardware configurations which allows for both the purchase of very cheap PCs (more later) but also installation on older hardware to bring it back to life.

If you’re setting up multiple computers, Windows 10 S can also be installed via USB with preconfigured options. That’s a big time saver.
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Yes, just like Microsoft’s failed Windows RT platform, Windows 10 S will not run software you have to install from the desktop. Currently that means no Chrome, no Firefox, no iTunes, numerous games and much much more.
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Bing Everywhere

Perhaps just as controversially, Microsoft has also announced that users will not be able to use any other search engine than Bing within Windows 10 S (aside from browsing to Google.com). Microsoft says where Bing isn’t available, regional variants will be offered, but that won’t include Google or any other major Bing search rivals.
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A crude way to describe Windows 10 S is Windows 10 restricted to the Windows Store. It’s also important to note Windows RT failed not because it was bad, but because it was ahead of its time. Five years later Microsoft will be desperately hoping the success of Cloud-based ChromeOS means the time for Windows 10 S has finally come.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordon...windows-10-whats-the-difference/#272aa9210974
 
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A crude way to describe Windows 10 S is Windows 10 restricted to the Windows Store. It’s also important to note Windows RT failed not because it was bad, but because it was ahead of its time. Five years later Microsoft will be desperately hoping the success of Cloud-based ChromeOS means the time for Windows 10 S has finally come.
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The good news is that with Project Centennial, many Desktop Win32 apps can be re-purposed and packaged to take advantage of Windows 10's improved security. However, there are apps that will inevitably be left behind because they violate the sandboxing rules that are needed to make the technology work in a secure fashion.
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http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-wi...7ce1dc9&bhid=22226770484748291244556378768223
 
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This is the future of Windows.

Microsoft has for more than twenty years been wanting to get away from Win32 - it comes from an era when PC computing was very different. The problem is that Win32 apps can run riot over the system, like the Wild West. RT, updated and renamed to UWP, solves all that. It's cleaner, sandboxed, and properly curated by the OS.

The big problem is support for legacy (Win32) applications.

Project Centennial provides a bridge. As some independent developers have said, Centennial is a small miracle. It allows a developer to wrap a Win32 app in a UWP shell and run it in UWP. It can then also be managed through the Store. Installs/uninstalls are clean, and it eliminates "Windows rot".

Next month several of the main Office apps come out in Centennial versions and will be in the Store, starting with orgs that have an Educational O365 subscription and then growing out to the rest of the market.

Windows 10 S is really normal Windows 10 without the Win32 Desktop. It's easy to upgrade to Win 10 Pro, which will be free till year-end and $50 thereafter.

It'll be interesting to see how developers support Centennial. All this is being discussed at Build, which is on at the mo.

And then there's WOA coming in Q4.
 
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iTunes is coming to the Windows Store.

As is Ubuntu. SUSE, and Fedora on the way.

Just announced at Build.

Not holding breath for Chrome.
 
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Arthur said:
iTunes is coming to the Windows Store.

As is Ubuntu. SUSE, and Fedora on the way.

Just announced at Build.

Not holding breath for Chrome.
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Ubuntu, Suse and Fedora on their way to the windows store? :wtf: Please explain...
 
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sajunky said:
On VM you can run almost everything. What it has to do with Windows?
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Not sure what you mean, I'm asking why the limitation to command line utilities if running on VM.


From Arthur's link:

Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora will all be available to install directly from the Windows Store, making it easy to run Linux apps on any Windows 10 device. The Linux installations will run in a virtualized environment side by side with Windows, with the same command-line utilities available that you’d normally have with a full installation.
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Stuff stores. Half of what runs on my computers is self-written and ain't going near a crappy store.
 
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