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The thing I mis most is the ability to bring devices with bloatware/marketingware back to basic to a, as we say, known state. We now use MDT for that step, but it shouldn't be necessary at all and you should be able to use the device out of the box. Maybe Microsoft should make a standard "Autopilot Ready". If a manufacturer uses that tag, the device should be in a certain state. I can imagine it could be a unique selling point to businesses and enterprises.
- Joe_Lurie
Microsoft
We all agree with that, Rob. The OEMs typically have an option get a vanilla build of the OS, but it's not their default. Some may charge for this as the games and other "bloatware" apps pay them to include it in the image. But you should be able to get a vanilla image. It's one reason why Autopilot on Surface device is might be a better option - we don't put bloatware on our images, so there's nothing to remove.- I totally agree. I would love to sell Surface products only to our customers 😉 I love the products! Dell, HP and Lenovo are also still major players on the market however. I would love to see some sort of certification like "AutoPilot Ready". I believe that could force major OEMs to produce without al the marketingware stuf. If Enterprise customers are only buying devices with that certification, then they will need to change their game.
- What about giving us the ability to use Fresh start as an Autopilot step ?
- Interesting take on it! This could also be a solution!
- What would be nice is if you had the choice to do a fresh start on each device in your profile so the machine comes up with a simple image ready to go
