Microsoft Launches 90-Day Windows 10 Free Trial

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Still don't know if you want to migrate to Windows 10 yet? Microsoft is offering a free 90 day trial to convince you to switch.

Microsoft has rolled out a free evaluation version of Windows 10 Enterprise edition so you can play with it for 90 days if you're still on the fence about upgrading.
 
I've just taken one of our old Lenovo T420's and stuffed it full of RAM and an SSD and been testing the 10240 Pro pre-release. KMS activation and the app differences are nice and all but for testing I'd rather have something more than 90 days. I'm sure my Pro pre-release will be good for at least twice that long. We have lots of old apps that have not been updated in way too long so tinkering with those is more important than anything else. That isn't limited to the version type.
 
"Most of the apps that come with Windows 10 Home and Pro aren't available in the Enterprise edition. So you won't find Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Cortana or other apps. And the Windows app store isn't available either, so you can't download apps. But despite these limitations, the Enterprise edition at least gives you a taste of Windows 10."

Haha, so they removed all the crap I don't want in my Windows 10 anyways, and Enterprise has control of when and how updates are done.

How do I legally license one copy of Windows 10 Enterprise? Can I be an Enterprise of one, maybe four at most, some later day?
 
Since the only reason for me to upgrade is DX12 I will wait until much, much later to try out.
 
There's supposed to be a major patch in October to add new features (version 10.1?). I'll wait a couple weeks after that patch hits before trying it out.
 
EODetroit said:
"Most of the apps that come with Windows 10 Home and Pro aren't available in the Enterprise edition. So you won't find Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Cortana or other apps. And the Windows app store isn't available either, so you can't download apps. But despite these limitations, the Enterprise edition at least gives you a taste of Windows 10."
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Best news I've read about Windows 10.

When it's time to upgrade the office systems, looks like I'll be creating my images using the Enterprise license (which I have access to as a MS partner) instead of the version that comes with the systems.
Sounds much easier than removing all the crud from the PRO version.
 
-must have premium solitaire-
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enterprise looks like a winner.

I still remember the pre-rtm and 10240 rtm discussion, the apps were crashing for some people still. I'll choose my own apps and versions to run, kthx
 
I don't know that I do want to migrate, but I do know that I don't want to migrate.
 
Enterprise is not a retail product, it never has been, it never will be, so the chances of Microsoft selling you just one copy is pretty much null and void. That's why they choose Enterprise for the 90-day trials - it's not because they want consumers trying it out to see if they want it, it's so that businesses can give it a run and see if it's something they can make use of.

Because it's a business oriented product it requires more control over aspects of the operating system so, a lot of the stuff the consumer versions have (Games, etc) are missing from the Enterprise edition outright because those things are not relevant in a business environment and just get in the way of people being productive (as they should be, at least).
 
Tiberian said:
Enterprise is not a retail product, it never has been, it never will be, so the chances of Microsoft selling you just one copy is pretty much null and void. That's why they choose Enterprise for the 90-day trials - it's not because they want consumers trying it out to see if they want it, it's so that businesses can give it a run and see if it's something they can make use of.

Because it's a business oriented product it requires more control over aspects of the operating system so, a lot of the stuff the consumer versions have (Games, etc) are missing from the Enterprise edition outright because those things are not relevant in a business environment and just get in the way of people being productive (as they should be, at least).
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This really sounds like the version I want. No games, no media players no jazz, just a fast latest OS.
 
Manofsteel said:
This really sounds like the version I want. No games, no media players no jazz, just a fast latest OS.
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That's what a lot of people think, but again, you can't buy Enterprise as a consumer - Microsoft doesn't sell it to consumers for individual copies. The only "legit" way to get it would be to use MSDN and even then MSDN software isn't licensed for home/consumer use either, when you get down to the nitty gritty details of things. You used to be able to get Enterprise through Technet but too many scammers and pirated ruined that side of things (they were buying up subscriptions that provide 10 keys per product then selling the keys on eBay/craigslist/etc, buying more subs, selling more keys, etc).

Kinda sucks because Technet was nice there for a while and very useful for developers that couldn't afford the vastly more expensive MSDN subs.
 
EODetroit said:
"Most of the apps that come with Windows 10 Home and Pro aren't available in the Enterprise edition. So you won't find Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Cortana or other apps. And the Windows app store isn't available either, so you can't download apps. But despite these limitations, the Enterprise edition at least gives you a taste of Windows 10."

Haha, so they removed all the crap I don't want in my Windows 10 anyways, and Enterprise has control of when and how updates are done.

How do I legally license one copy of Windows 10 Enterprise? Can I be an Enterprise of one, maybe four at most, some later day?
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You need a software assurance contract with typically means buying a minimum amount of licenses and paying a yearly maintenance fee on one of the 23892389232 different licensing programs Microsoft offices.

I would avoid dealing with any Microsoft enterprise licensing unless you want a brain aneurysm because you basically need to be a lawyer to understand any of it.
 
Or you need a year of MSDN. I know MSDN Pro is like $1199 for one year. $749 or $799 to renew or something like that. Is Enterprise worth $1200 to you? You do of course get a bunch of other OS licenses as well and the terms are pretty generous (when the year is up whoever the account was assigned to at the time can still legally use the licenses last I read it). Whether or not you can access the keys if you haven't written them down after the year is up I don't know. I've never bought my own and when I've moved jobs my old employer has always reassigned the account before it expired and my new employer has assigned me a new one.
 
nutzo said:
Best news I've read about Windows 10.

When it's time to upgrade the office systems, looks like I'll be creating my images using the Enterprise license (which I have access to as a MS partner) instead of the version that comes with the systems.
Sounds much easier than removing all the crud from the PRO version.
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EODetroit said:
"Most of the apps that come with Windows 10 Home and Pro aren't available in the Enterprise edition. So you won't find Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Cortana or other apps. And the Windows app store isn't available either, so you can't download apps. But despite these limitations, the Enterprise edition at least gives you a taste of Windows 10."

Haha, so they removed all the crap I don't want in my Windows 10 anyways, and Enterprise has control of when and how updates are done.

How do I legally license one copy of Windows 10 Enterprise? Can I be an Enterprise of one, maybe four at most, some later day?
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Not sure where they got this. I installed Windows 10 Enterprise on my old i7 980x 3x GTX 680 gaming rig and all of this stuff is there. Even plugged in an old USB mic specially work with Cortana and it's actually pretty cool to be able to do web searches and open files and documents via voice.
 
StormUP said:
Or you need a year of MSDN. I know MSDN Pro is like $1199 for one year. $749 or $799 to renew or something like that. Is Enterprise worth $1200 to you? You do of course get a bunch of other OS licenses as well and the terms are pretty generous (when the year is up whoever the account was assigned to at the time can still legally use the licenses last I read it). Whether or not you can access the keys if you haven't written them down after the year is up I don't know. I've never bought my own and when I've moved jobs my old employer has always reassigned the account before it expired and my new employer has assigned me a new one.
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You can get MSDN Opearting Systems for $700.

Technically speaking, MSDN licenses are for development purposes, not for production use. You aren't supposed to use MSDN operating systems for everyday purposes. The chances of them auditing a single individual are small but if the BSA comes after you and finds you in violation of the agreement, they will shake you down for a considerable amount.
 
Tiberian said:
Because it's a business oriented product it requires more control over aspects of the operating system so, a lot of the stuff the consumer versions have (Games, etc) are missing from the Enterprise edition outright because those things are not relevant in a business environment and just get in the way of people being productive (as they should be, at least).
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You mean the employees will have to go back to playing solitaire manually (with cards) :)
 
There would be no need for this if you can revert back. So what happens to your license if you roll back.
 
Old_Way said:
There's supposed to be a major patch in October to add new features (version 10.1?). I'll wait a couple weeks after that patch hits before trying it out.
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yep. Service Release 1. kinda funny after they stood up and proclaimed that service packs were dead. Same Windows Sustained Engineering group doing them that's always dome the Service Packs in the past.
 
DPI said:
yep. Service Release 1. kinda funny after they stood up and proclaimed that service packs were dead. Same Windows Sustained Engineering group doing them that's always dome the Service Packs in the past.
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Not sure why some get caught up on nomenclature. Service Packs as something you wait for a year are dead.
 
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