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In an enterprise environment where I control the apps that I install for my users, what are the ramifications of removing the Windows store and all of its apps from my Windows 10 setups?
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Nerdfest on Friday March 31 2017, @01:57PM (2 children)
No need for it here in Canada either. There's a "Skip" button. Just like there's a "Skip" button to setting up any Google accounts at all on the phone, yet people insist that they are required.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:41AM (1 child)
I've often seen howtos that can't be followed because somewhere around step 5, it'll instruct you to choose a menu option or button that is not present on your particular system. Happens a lot in Windows. When you dig in to the details, you find complexity. There may be other options that determine which options the user sees. It may be simply not present on low end "Home" versions of Windows.
Windows is especially frustrating in that you can't trust MS not to change your choices behind your back. Recall how much trouble it was to stop Windows 7 and 8 from nagging the user to upgrade to Windows 10. Just when you finally thought you had the correct "updates" blocked. MS would change the updater to unblock them and bring back the upgrade nagger. Nor can you be sure what the consequences are of disabling something. For instance, I thought I would disable this fingerprint reader service in Windows, as I don't have one and don't plan to get one. But somehow that functionality is tied to the ability to log in at all. With it stopped, logging in was much harder, taking 5 minutes to get around to displaying a password prompt, when it would enable the user to log in at all.
So I didn't see any "Skip" option. Maybe it isn't present in older versions of Android? Or, you can Skip, but then you will be unable to purchase even free items from the Store, and when you try, it again brings up the screen demanding a credit card number.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Saturday April 01 2017, @01:40PM
I'm pretty sure it's always been there, and you can purchase free items in the store. I'll add that I can only say this for sure about Nexus devices and CyanogenMod, but I think it's part of the Google Play application, so it should apply to all. Same for adding GMail accounts for phone setup (although you do need a GMail account for Play Store setup).