MicrosoftI guess I'll be the one to bring up a forgotten part of the 'information workers' that are getting over-looked by the SAC\LTSC argument.
I'm not sure why this isn't just more of a 'Enterprise vs Retail-fluffy-crap' in the first place, but I digress.
I guess this is also 'slightly' off topic as stated by Joe_Lurie as just the change from 10-yr to 5-yr support for the LTSC.
Police Officers \ EMT \ Small Gov Emergency Responders
Who wants to be the first to call 911 and have the dispatcher say...."Tell the guy with the gun to hold on for a few minutes, while I get my new Feature Update with the latest version of Candy Crush !"
or
"Sorry, unconscious person with blunt-force trama, I was trying to access your medical records but I'm waiting for the Feature Release to get that important Xbox & virtual reality function to be installed"
Now, some might say, this is an admin issue to control\lockdown\manage the SAC. You might suggest that I use 5 or 10 or 20 different "free" things for me to properly manage SAC. You might suggest 100 different GPO's to help me... I respectfully say, I simply do not have the time for this.
I (and 1,000's of other small municipalities), simply do not have the resources to deal with a retail SAC version of Windows.
We need a "Pro" version of an O/S. No fluff. No 3D Paint. No Store. No virtual assistants. No Cortana. No Xbox. No Candy Crush. No TV & Movies. Simple & easy to manage.
I'm sorry if this offends all of the Millennials that work at MS and have created all of these incredible apps for the home user and a small number of businesses that benefit from them...Pro or Ent version should simply have an opt-in for this stuff. Win98SE is a good example of this (yes, this shows my age).
I use SmartDeploy right now as the best way to easily manage my images.
I do have SCCM, but I use it in very limited ways. I do have some GPOs to do some simple things.
Respectfully,
'You're not the intended user of LTSC' 😞
