Let’s discuss the myths around the move to cloud-native management, with Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra ID, and Windows 11. In this post, we will address some common questions and misconception...
Updated Jun 11, 2024
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Good article, however, this confusion is pretty much self-inflicted by Microsoft.
They are trying to have their cake and eat it. On the one hand they want people to fully embrace Intune management go away from on premises, then they don't need to support Configuration Manager, AD services etc. anymore. but at the same time, they want people to move away from Windows 10 by October next year.
But it makes 0 sense to go fully cloud managed with just Windows 10 at this point, while at the same time they spent the last several years telling people to buy into Windows 11 because it is a major upgrade and not just Windows 10 with lipstick on. Let's be real here, Windows 11 could have been a feature release of Windows 10, it was a new major version for marketing reasons, after all Windows 10 was supposed to be "the last new version of windows" due to the servicing model. Only this gives people the takeaway that it isn't simple to upgrade because of all the extra testing they need to do for business apps a "major" new OS requires.
Basically, this confusion in their customers is completely understandable because of the really mixed messaging from MS's different product streams over the last several years.