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Caleb Nelands
I'd like our company to buy me a new laptop, but as I want quadcore i7 720QM, there are a lot of models with Windows 7 Home Premium, and few with Windows 7 Professional. I have looked in the edition comparison table and I can say that I don't need any of the features exclusive to Professional.
The main sticking point is usually joining the machine to the domain. IT staff use this to do things like set up your user account, control access to file shares (and possibly an exchange mailbox), deploy certain kinds of software to the machine, and generally get their job done. A machine not joined to the domain will require a lot more work for them to keep up with than one that is joined.
While this isn't really a problem on one machine (you can set up work-arounds for most things) it's definitely a problem if there are lots of machines like this; it will cripple their ability to keep systems functioning efficiently. This is the kind of thing where making exceptions creates a slippery slope; once they allow you to get away with it there's suddenly 20 computers to support that aren't connected and all need special attention. Now those extra few dollars you were so happy to save are lost 10 times over because you're paying for an additional support tech.
As a final note, do you really need that fancy Core i7? Where I'm at it would definitely be considered a luxury item and require a pretty solid business case to justify. Anyway, if you really want a fast machine have them spend the money on a quality solid state drive. It's likely to matter more to performance than the fast processor, as even modest i3 is likely to have cycles to spare.
I was asked the same question on twitter quite some time ago, and I was curious on the same, so I spent some time reading the EULA. Do note that I'm not a lawyer and this shouldn't be considered as "legal advice". Also, this is the part of the EULA which is a reference to anything commercial.
The last line is the probably the one which bars anything "commercial" - but the wording says no to commercial software hosting services - it probably means use as a web server or a use as a server in a thin client setup
There's no law against using it there, but there may be licensing limitations. There used to be restrictions on number of clients that can connect if you do file sharing or whatever. You may want to install software that MS says can only be installed on non-Home Windows. Your installer may check and refuse to install.
The Home/Professional split is a bit arbitrary, trying to squeeze more money out of people with corporate budgets. In NT4, the only changes were literally 2 registry changes between the two, plus some bundled software. There's a good article on pricing from Spolsky, back before his writing skills atrophied a bit. It explains this split somewhat. And is a good read anyway
You can buy the Home Premium version and upgrade to Professional version with an "anytime upgrade" for only a few dollars if you find that you need the additional networking capabilities of the Professional version(and you probably will). You cannot switch bit rate versions with "anytime upgrade" so whether you start with 32 bit or 64 bit may be an important decision.
The company that I work for continuously hires new people, and I'm the one who has to go and purchase new computers. The majority of them, if not all, come pre-installed with Windows Home editions. I'm noticing that the Windows 7/8 Home editions are unable to connect to domains. I'm having to buy the upgrades to the Pro editions. I'm trying to understand as to why the Home edition of the OS is unable to connect to domains?
Microsoft doesn't allow Home editions of Windows to join domains because they figure that home users won't be connecting to any type of domain. Although that does suck, you do have to purchase the professional version of Windows in order to get that feature.
Don't be fooled by some of these answers, while you can't join a domain there are ways you can connect to a domain for running applications that require it if you have a domain account. You can use the runas /netonly command:
You will be prompted to enter a password and if the username and password provided does indeed match a domain user the given program in pathToFile/file.exe will run as if you where on the domain mydomain.
It's basically market segmentation by Microsoft. They have decided that the Home editions cannot connect to the domain so they can price and support different products in a different way. You will continue to have to upgrade the Home editions unless you can find a vendor, such as CDW (just what my employer uses), that will provide the business versions pre-installed. Many of these vendors will ship next day, but for a price. It's up to you and your employer if you want to go that route.
One option you have is to purchasecomputers that come with a Professional Edition of Windows pre-installed. These do exist, and it's likely cheaper to get your license this way than to pay for the upgrade seperately.
An even better option is to start using volume licensing. If you have 5 or more Windows computers at your business, you qualify for the volume licensing program. This can yield a huge saving over the retail pricing.
I set up a VM with windows 10 home and it seems to work fine there. So I assume something is conflicting somehow. The same policy also applies just fine on a windows 10 pro pc we have. All of my pcs are on a local network, but not connected to any domain. I set each group policy locally.
Well, I thought Home edition does not allow for GPOs, one of the reasons you go with Pro edition. If so, strange that you see it in the VM. And it may have changed since last I read, I just never deal with Home edition.
I am using the group policy editor mmc snap-in to edit the policy. It then creates a registry.pol in the grouppolicy folder as it should. I am fine with having to apply the policy on each machine separately as it is only a small handful.
The NaturalONE community edition is working on Windows 11, I am testing it by myself.
The other community edition components running on containers (Podman / Docker).
We are working to announce officially that NaturalONE will be supported on Windows 11.
One important topic, I was following the link you provided and it was for the old version of Natural.
The NaturalONE in the latest version is already supporting Windows 11, see documentation :
System Requirements (softwareag.com)
Hi Luis, the docker instances that you run form the NATURAL and ADABAS ecosystem backend BUT you still need to perform a local install of the NATURAL IDE (packaged as an Eclipse IDE plugin). You need to run that install since it will install the Eclipse IDE with the NATURAL plugin for you to work locally on your machine.
Once you have the IDE environment installed you will then configure a connection between the IDE and the running docker image for NATURAL on your machine. You can simply check the status of the docker containers within Docker Desktop and start and stop them as necessary.
Vray website only shows Windows 10 Pro as a compatible operating system but it seems odd to me. If anyone could confirm me that these software would also run smoothly on windows 10 home 64bit that'd be great
Just be aware natively you cannot access gpedit.msc (Group Policy for disabling automatic driver/windows updates). However I found a workaround that installs it regardless and it works great now. I was a bit dubious at first as its a batch file - but after reading through it, its safe.
Just be aware switching from Windows 7 to Windows 10 you will have a few permission hurdles to get through at first (or maybe this has been resolved in service packs). Any troubles come ask we should have some fixes for it.
This will allow you to write to the 3ds max directory as your user. (max tends to want to place items in here sometimes when writing config data, not having permissions will cause some problems time to time). Also helps if you customise your scripts in this directory.
Dean : I can't say I would trust buying a windows license from ebay to be honest. Buying a pro license from a reseller (even the oem version) is twice as much as the home one. In France at least. Hence why I'd like to not waste money on a software I actually won't really need (all the security stuff the pro version brings are a bit useless for what I do).
I am looking to buy a laptop for lighter work, most come with W10 home and i was wondering if eventually i would NEED to upgrade to Pro for 3D and Autocad work, will the Pro OS make a noticeable difference for this work? will it work better with the hardware?
Safe side go for Pro for better compatibility although these software could run on Home version as well, but go for Pro as many software OEM ask for Pro for their software to run properly. My Ant PC Workstation for 3D Animation runs 3DS Max on Windows 10 Pro flawlessly I have heard there are some modules compatibility issues with home.
I have set up GCPW on a windows 11 home edition device. Log in and everything works as expected. However no policies seem to be applied to the user. I've checked the enrollment token is there. Device management is enabled. The documentation status stats windows 10 Pro is supported. Does this mean windows 11 home edition wouldn't be supported because it's not Pro?
Below are the system requirements for GCPW from the documentation which states you need Windows Pro editions at a minimum or using one of the other editions stated. You can install GCPW on Windows Home editions but the policies and provisions won't be applied properly amongst other issues that may show up.
I just finished upgrading to windows 11 home from windows 10 home and decided I would like to purchase windows 11 pro. I used the link in settings to upgrade my version of windows. I bought the 99 dollar windows pro from within the Microsoft store. It showed the purchase was successful and a button appeared saying install now.
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