Microsoft unveils new operating system – Windows 10 S

Users can only run applications available on the Windows Store platform, and attempting to run an external application will result in the user being redirected to a similar program on the store.
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So basically a marketing OS for them and their ****ty affiliates.
 
I can kind of see the point in this, but I really don't see it working/flying for very long.
 
Ho3n3r said:
So basically a marketing OS for them and their ****ty affiliates.
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Give it to schools for free so students don't learn another OS and Microsoft get some ad revenue out of it. Win win for MS.
 
Windows 10 S will be available on PCs from Microsoft partners and will be free for schools using Windows 10 Pro PCs.
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Free ... nice.

Users can only run applications available on the Windows Store platform, and attempting to run an external application will result in the user being redirected to a similar program on the store.
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Not so free maybe ... :whistle:
 
Ho3n3r said:
So basically a marketing OS for them and their ****ty affiliates.
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Didn't they want to do something similar with Windows 10 originally? I remember there was a lot of anger about the Win10 marketplace when it was first announced during development.

Windows 10 S will be available on PCs from Microsoft partners and will be free for schools using Windows 10 Pro PCs.
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Why would you want to switch from Win10 Pro to a crippled version of Windows?
 
If you could make a bare bones OS gamers & other professionals would jump on it.

There was a guy that use to do nLite & vLight where you could strip a win xp or vista (worked on win7 to some degree) to like 250MB. It was snot fast. So what did MS do, they offered him a job he could not refuse and we're stuck with the bloat. When you compare a manual linux install vs a windows install you will schite yourself with the amount of crap & services windows installs by default.
 
ponder said:
If you could make a bare bones OS gamers & other professionals would jump on it.

There was a guy that use to do nLite & vLight where you could strip a win xp or vista (worked on win7 to some degree) to like 250MB. It was snot fast. So what did MS do, they offered him a job he could not refuse and we're stuck with the bloat. When you compare a manual linux install vs a windows install you will schite yourself with the amount of crap & services windows installs by default.
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Indeed. I installed Ubuntu on my laptop this week and suddenly everything is just absolutely blazing fast compared to Win10. I've currently got Chrome open with 10 tabs and my memory usage is sitting at 600mb. Windows 10 would regularly idle at 1 - 1.5gb, and that's with tons of things removed from startup.
 
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