Reply to: Windows 10 - who dares?

[Yampy]

Why are they deploying W10 to a fleet when it hasn't even been released properly?

The Surface Pro's come with 8.1 and an upgrade option to W10. Having spoke to the external consultants that will be doing the build it makes sense to bring W10 into service rather than 8.1. They are saying that W7 users will transition much easier to W10 because it feels more like W7 from a user perspective. The IT support in this clientco is outsourced so everything costs money. It makes sense to spend the money on a W10 build rather than put out 8.1 now and then spend more money redoing the build. The actual project end date is 3 months away so hopefully some of the earlier bugs might be fixed by then

[MicrosoftBob]

Why are they deploying W10 to a fleet when it hasn't even been released properly?

He who dares Rodders he who dares

[d000hg]

Why are they deploying W10 to a fleet when it hasn't even been released properly?

[Yampy]

Coincidentally I have just been assigned a new project today to introduce Win10 to service for 50 or so Surface 3 Pro's. So image build, deployment via SCCM, disk encryption etc. the first issue I've come across is that our current version of SCCM 2012 doesn't support it. Oh we'll it's only day one of the project

[d000hg]

and what do the corporates do with images?

Service Packs weren't there for home users.

Enterprise customers get a different mechanism so they can control when updates are applied, but I don't know that's service packs or simply being able to marshal all your PCs like you can now. Apparently regular users don't even get a choice - you WILL get new updates when they are released.

[vetran]

Aren't they ditching the entire SP model in favour of constant, mandatory updates?

and what do the corporates do with images?

Service Packs weren't there for home users.

[d000hg]

Rolling updates replacing SPs doesn't have anything to do with end of life, so I think these are two separate issues:
1)will we still get SPs
2)will we still get new major versions of windows

As you say, I think the answer to 2 has to be "yes". Apart from anything else, they can't bring in major changes like 7->8 incrementally, there will doubtless be future paradigm shifts.

[MicrosoftBob]

I'm not sure how our two comments are related.

Publicly they are saying Windows 10 is the last OS, with just rolling updates to it as opposed to their traditional model of service packs

If it is, why would it have an end of life ?

What they are saying does not ring true

[d000hg]

Aren't they ditching the entire SP model in favour of constant, mandatory updates?

As Windows 10 end of life is 2020 for mainstream support, I'd imagine that another windows version is coming later

I'm not sure how our two comments are related.

[Paddy]

I prefer the Metro style for a touchscreen, so I'm finished with it for now (about 4 releases for beta).

Meanwhile Office 2016 is out, so I'm just trying that out. No doubt I revert back to Office 2007

[GlenW]

I'm going to install it as soon as it comes out, I mean what could go wrong?

[MicrosoftBob]

Aren't they ditching the entire SP model in favour of constant, mandatory updates?

As Windows 10 end of life is 2020 for mainstream support, I'd imagine that another windows version is coming later

[d000hg]

service pack 1 of course!

Aren't they ditching the entire SP model in favour of constant, mandatory updates?

[Doggy Styles]

Not yet, but as every second version disagrees with me (vista, W8, whatever came before XP), this should be a decent one.

[vetran]

service pack 1 of course!