From an essay at howtogeek.com:
Did you know there's a version of Windows 10 that doesn't get big feature updates, and doesn't even have the Windows Store or Microsoft Edge browser? It's called Windows 10 LTSB, short for Long Term Servicing Branch.
There are several "branches" of Windows 10. The most unstable branch is the Insider Preview version of Windows 10. Most Windows PCs are on the "Current Branch", which is considered the stable branch. Windows 10 Professional users have the option to "Defer Upgrades", which puts them on the "Current Branch for Business". This branch will only get new builds of Windows 10, like the Anniversary Preview, a few months after they've been tested on the "Current Branch". It's like the stable, consumer branch–but slower moving.
But businesses don't want all their PCs to constantly get big updates, even if they are delayed a few months. Critical infrastructure like ATMs, medical equipment, and PCs that control machines on a factory floor don't need whizbang features, they need long term stability and few updates that will potentially break things. A PC operating medical equipment in a hospital room doesn't need new Cortana updates. That's what Windows 10 LTSB–the "Long Term Servicing Branch"–is for, and it's only available for the Enterprise edition of Windows 10.
While this is a branch of Windows 10, you can only get it by installing Windows from Windows 10 LTSB installation media. You can get other branches of Windows simply by changing an option within Windows 10 itself, but that isn't the case here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @04:30AM
software such as CAD, 3D design, Audio and Video, simulation, and other business software is propping up MS
This sounds like sloth on the part of users to me: unwillingness to try something new.
Whenever I encounter this sort of claim, I think back several years to when I first encountered an architect (now retired) in the Linux Mint forum.
He would note that he was using FOSS exclusively. [google.com]
Going back years before that, in sci.electronics.design|sci.electronics.cad, Terry Porter would link to images of the PCBs he had created for customers' jobs using FOSS exclusively.
The developers of gEDA [google.com] were also frequent posters and they were eating their own dog food and making good money from using that.
When Ernie Ball, Inc. got raided by the Business Software Alliance in 2000, he told his IT guys he wanted the proprietary stuff gone by the end of the year.
They had Fedora/FOSS in place before the deadline and the company adapted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer-aided_design_editors#firstHeading [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_editing_software#firstHeading [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_digital_audio_editors#firstHeading [wikipedia.org]
Plenty of *n?x-compatible stuff and blue rectangles (FOSS) in those.
site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/+intitle:Comparison.of+simulation [google.com]
I checked several of those pages and they also shape up pretty well *n?x-|FOSS-wise.
Sure you aren't working from and old/limited data set?
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