Az Enterprise nem szerepel az ingyenes W10 frissítés tervekben; jön az LTS és a Current branch for Business

Microsoft, Windows

A Microsoft január 21-én jelentette be, hogy ingyenesen frissíthetnek majd Windows 10-re a Windows 7 / 8.1 és Windows Phone 8.1 eszközök felhasználói a kiadást követő első évben.

Tegnap Jim Alkove arról blogolt, hogy ez a program nem vonatkozik ebben a formában az enterprise ügyfelekre:

Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise are not included in the terms of free Windows 10 Upgrade offer we announced last week, given active Software Assurance customers will continue to have rights to upgrade to Windows 10 enterprise offerings outside of this offer – while also benefitting from the full flexibility to deploy Windows 10 using their existing management infrastructure.

LTS ág

A blogbejegyzés azt is tartalmazza, hogy az enterprise ügyfelek részére érkezik majd egy LTS, azaz Long Term Servicing ág:

For example, systems powering hospital emergency rooms, air traffic control towers, financial trading systems, factory floors, just to name a few, may need very strict change management policies, for prolonged periods of time. To support Windows 10 devices in these mission critical customer environments we will provide Long Term Servicing branches at the appropriate time intervals. On these branches, customer devices will receive the level of enterprise support expected for the mission critical systems, keeping systems more secure with the latest security and critical updates, while minimizing change by not delivering new features for the duration of mainstream (five years) and extended support (five years).

Current branch for Business

Illetve egy CbB ág:

To that end, we are introducing a new approach for business customers, which we are referring to as the Current branch for Business. By putting devices on the Current branch for Business, enterprises will be able to receive feature updates after their quality and application compatibility has been assessed in the consumer market, while continuing to receive security updates on a regular basis. This gives IT departments’ time to start validating updates in their environments the day changes are shipped broadly to consumers, or in some cases earlier, if they have users enrolled in the Windows Insider Program. By the time Current branch for Business machines are updated, the changes will have been validated by millions of Insiders, consumers and customers’ internal test processes for several months, allowing updates to be deployed with this increased assurance of validation. Enterprises will be able to decide if they want to receive updates automatically via Windows Update, or via WSUS to have control through management tools over how the updates are distributed in their environments.

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