{"id":11913,"date":"2018-07-12T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southjerseytechies.net\/blog\/?p=11913"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T15:47:27","slug":"windows-10-pro-is-a-dead-end-for-the-enterprise-gartner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southjerseytechies.net\/blog\/windows-10-pro-is-a-dead-end-for-the-enterprise-gartner-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Pro is a dead end for the enterprise, Gartner says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent changes by Microsoft to the Windows 10 support schedule underline why Windows 10 Pro is an ill fit for most companies.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Windows 10 Pro is a dead end for enterprises, a prominent Gartner analyst has argued.<\/h4>\n

“[We] predict that Microsoft will continue positioning Windows [10] Pro as a release that is not appropriate for enterprises by reducing … support and limiting access to enterprise management features,” Stephen Kleynhans, a research vice president at Gartner and one of the research firm’s resident Windows experts, said in a report he co-authored.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Pro occupies the middle ground between the consumer-grade Home and the corporate-level Enterprise in features, functionality and price. Because Enterprise versions of Windows have never been available to computer makers, Pro – sometimes, as in Windows 7, tagged Professional<\/i> instead – has been the most popular pre-installed OS on new business PCs. (Corporations typically re-image new personal computers with Enterprise upon receipt of the devices.)<\/p>\n

But although Pro or Professional has a long history in business<\/span><\/span> settings, Microsoft has made numerous decisions in its Windows 10 migration campaign to separate Pro and Enterprise even more, pushing them apart. In Kleynhans’ view, the gap has become unbridgeable.<\/p>\n