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<strong>August</strong><strong>2017</strong> <strong>Issue</strong><strong>274</strong><br />
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EDITORIAL<br />
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF<br />
Tim Danton: editor@pcpro.co.uk<br />
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Dick Pountain<br />
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FEATURES EDITOR<br />
Barry Collins<br />
FUTURES EDITOR<br />
Nicole Kobie<br />
BRIEFING EDITOR<br />
Stewart Mitchell<br />
LETTERS & SOFTWARE EDITOR<br />
Nik Rawlinson<br />
ART & PRODUCTION<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
Paul Duggan<br />
FREELANCE DESIGN<br />
Bill Bagnall, Sarah Readman<br />
SUB-EDITORS<br />
Max Figgett, Priti Patel<br />
To tie in with our<br />
feature on Windows<br />
10 S (see p30), we<br />
asked our contributors:<br />
is Windows 10 S<br />
a Microsoft<br />
masterstroke or<br />
misstep?<br />
“Schools – and businesses<br />
– want reliable, secure,<br />
affordable easy-to-manage<br />
computers. By cutting out<br />
some complexity, Microsoft<br />
does seem to be meeting<br />
this need. If Microsoft, for<br />
once, has the courage of its<br />
convictions then Windows<br />
10 S could indeed turn out to<br />
be a masterstroke.”<br />
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“Sandboxing apps? Good<br />
idea. Reducing bloat? Great.<br />
Having to use Edge and<br />
Bing? Forget it.”<br />
“Too many questions<br />
remain. Will Microsoft<br />
really charge for Win32<br />
upgrades next year? Will it<br />
actually deliver ‘full<br />
function’ Office or stick to<br />
the wimp-out versions<br />
delivered so far? Because if<br />
it’s full function, it has to<br />
wrapper the whole of Office<br />
to squeeze it into the Store<br />
requirements.”<br />
“I presume the ‘S’ stands for<br />
stupid. It’s designed to stop<br />
students installing<br />
‘unapproved’ software,<br />
but if there’s one group of<br />
users guaranteed to get<br />
around any such restriction<br />
it’s kids.”<br />
“As the whole Dennis sales<br />
team has just experienced<br />
a positive move to<br />
Chromebooks, it seems<br />
Microsoft would be crazy<br />
not to offer an alternative<br />
to something that ticks a<br />
lot of boxes for many<br />
business users.”<br />
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