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How Would You Change Windows 9?

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-weekly-borg dept.

CowboyTeal writes:

"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by iamjacksusername on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:16PM

    by iamjacksusername (1479) on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:16PM (#9665)

    It exists and it is called WSUS. A WSUS service can be customized to include non-Microsoft packages but the licensing implications (i.e. requires server CALs for each unique connection), the client side technical requirements (it can break rather spectacularly and opaquely if you do not do it right), as well the fact that WSUS server is a "free" product that Microsoft could arbitrarily change the licensing agreement terms on essentially make it unworkable as a public repository solution.

    This does not exist in a vacuum of course. Microsoft makesx far too much money selling companies package management tools for that capability to be "standard". Adobe, HP and Dell. SCCM does what you are thinking of but it bypasses the built-in WSUS client side technologies in favor of requiring the use of SCCM. And that is another subject for another day.

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  • (Score: 1) by iamjacksusername on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:19PM

    by iamjacksusername (1479) on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:19PM (#9668)

    There is a missing sentence...

    I meant to say "Adobe, HP and Dell are the only major vendors I am aware of that publish publicly accessible SCCM repositories."