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Your company should be using Windows 10 Enterprise that gives you full control including update management? In fact, you should be using WSUS to control updates regardless if its Windows 10 Enterprise or even Pro.

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Their company should be using Windows 10 IoT (the successor to Windows Embedded), which allows a lot more things to be turned off than the desktop or even server Windows editions.

Doesn’t that support only UWP store apps?

That's Windows IoT Core. Windows IoT Enterprise supports regular apps as well.

Funny, I'm sure you're being helpful but I can't tell if this is satire. Thank god for gnu.

It gets much better. Take a big stash of cash and try to buy windows licenses. It’s really difficult to spend money.

Would be nice if it were easier to get that info. Our MS reps never mentioned this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot-core/windows-io...

It's all easily available online. Don't rely on anyone to give you the full truth on anything they are trying to sell you.

I am sure I had this conversation with you months ago, actually.

What if their company is a dentist and they just want a stable system to run their X-ray machine?

Not all businesses want or need enterprise-level IT management, and there are alternatives to having a full-time professional sysadmin that do not involve being the stereotype dumb user who forgets to apply security updates.

That's what enterprise LTSC is for. No windows apps, no gimmicks and completely configurable and long term support.

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. I meant, what if the business running the OS and using the device was a dentist? They might only have a handful of PCs in the whole place, but those machines would potentially be used to process medical records, review results of scans from specialist equipment, etc. In that sort of environment, you obviously have a need to deploy security updates straightforwardly, but you also want a lot of stability because your specialist software and/or the interfaces to your specialist equipment might break otherwise, and you certainly can't have computers rebooting whenever they feel like it. The Enterprise LTSC edition might satisfy the stability aspects, but is it even available to organisations like that on a reasonable basis and does it have the ability to deploy security updates easily without tying them up with any other changes you might not need or want?

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