Windows 10 S officially announced

Until I can see Win10 S is a third type of win10, so I can rest easy that it will not appear in my PC thru any update. Is it correct?

jaca said:

Until I can see Win10 S is a third type of win10, so I can rest easy that it will not appear in my PC thru any update. Is it correct?

win10 S will not install on your computer by doing updates.

Makio9 said:

Anyone know if Windows 10 S can be used by professionals? Aka does it come with Local Group Policy Editor?

Something from a Microsoft blog to confirm what the others have said.
From: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/com...-windows-10-s/

Windows 10 S is not well-suited for many app developers/hackers, admins & IT pro’s!

• App developers often need to use tools that have access to low-level features of the local machine, e.g. debuggers, registry access, filesystem access, hardware access, etc.
• Admins & IT Pro’s need to write and run scripts & tools that deploy apps, configure users’ accounts, modify security settings, configure firewalls & anti-malware systems, etc.

These needs are not well met by an operating system that has been deliberately constrained to prevent just these types of apps and tasks from running!

This said, Windows 10 S can be used for building code that runs elsewhere – on the web, on IoT devices, on a remote VM via ssh, etc. Such scenarios don’t require the user access/modify a local machine’s system, settings/registry, filesystem, etc.

And of specific interest to readers of this blog, Windows 10 S does not run command-line applications, nor the Windows Console, Cmd / PowerShell, or Linux/Bash/WSL instances since command-line apps run outside the safe environment that protects Windows 10 S from malicious / misbehaving software: