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Where I live (India), a typical laptop comes for Rs. 40,000 (around USD 500) with Windows 10 Home pre-loaded.
Have never used Win 10 Pro.
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Lack of RDP has always made any Home version of Windows a non-starter for me. I practically live inside RDP.
The inability to join a domain also makes Home's usefulness to me questionable--but that's just the way I work. YMMV, I realize not everybody (even among us developers) sets up a domain at home.
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I vastly prefer Win7 over Win10 but I can't deny that's a really good deal I'd probably take. Beyond that, I'd probably pick up a VS license so I could sell software without the revenue cap tied to the free editions and play around more with some of the Enterprise-only features. That's pretty much it I think 
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MS employee store does not contain anything development related - Windows, Office, Games...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: MS employee store does not contain anything development related
Is that because MS employees are not allowed to develop anything? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Haha, no, but you never know! I don't really sell anything at the moment. My stuff in my personal time ends up open source.
I'd really just like to play around with some of the Enterprise features like some of the advanced debugging tools.
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if it's coming Quote: from their employee store...
then it's certainly better than a potentially dodgy OEM one, so YES
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: There is not much there for a developer anyone with a brain to be honest...
Had to fix that. I`m just taking apart my dead PC and I think the replacement will never even know that Mickeysoft exists at all. By now they would have to pay me money to even look at their stuff. If they really want to control my computer, then I let them pay rent.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 29-Jul-20 6:46am.
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I remember AoE... I may pay $10 for the nostalgia... But have to check first that it works on Wine...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Wine? Good idea. Will I need it for Skyrim? Ahh, found it already... blah ... why on earth? (answer: because not Mickeysoft) ... blah blah blah ... download ... blah blah blah ... WineSteam ...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm playing UbiSoft games on Fedora using Wine... so far all I have (4) works good
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Until your friends and relatives start asking you "WTF are these Libre Office files you keep sending me? The layout is all messed up when I open them with Word".
(been there, done that--but on the recipient side, as the sender was an avid "anti-everything MS")
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: What would you buy?
Back when I had MVP status, I purchased clothes, one or two software titles, a few books, and some office trinkets. Toward the end, I ran out of stuff that I was even the least bit interested in, and just let the credit expire.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Forget software - get a mouse and keyboard. This is where the discounted prices make it worthwhile.
I remember 2+ decades ago the company I worked for got special pricing for both hardware and software. This is roughly the year where MS's first ergonomic keyboard came out. A large number of items were $21, and I believe that's what I had paid for it; no local store could match it.
Oh, and Flight Sim. I had always wanted to learn to use it, but not badly enough to pay full price. I still have probably not logged more than 4 hours with it...and now there's finally a new one coming out soon...?
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No hardware...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Visio Professional.
Software design and presentations ... and landscaping, deck design, etc.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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A coffee mug?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I can send you 6 licenses of Win10 fro one CP coffee mug 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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SUCCESS:
At age 4, success is . . . not piddling in your pants.
At age 12, success is . . . having friends.
At age 17, success is . . . having a driver’s license.
At age 35, success is . . . having money.
At age 50, success is . . . having money.
At age 70, success is . . . having a driver’s license.
At age 75, success is . . . having friends.
At age 80, success is . . . not piddling in your pants.
(Copied from Royal Arch Mason Magazine - attributed to anonymous).
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at age 70, do not need to go to hospital
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Started my MS Surface Go (from sleep) today; MS was busy the previous night with the "new Edge" updates (There is already Edge on the device so why it should be "new"?)
After logging in, the first thing is you get some Office / Edge update prompts ... except they're full screen / scaled wrong: no close buttons ... no buttons, period. Can't slide, scroll, whatever.
Rebooting gets you through as series of updates until you just get Edge prompts ... ignore, ignore, ignore.
Other stuff now seems OK, except Edge ... incapable of adapting to screen resolution. So "big", it's unusable.
(Did my grandma get all that?)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Started my MS Surface Go
First mistake - buying hardware from MS. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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