This was a detail I missed.Software support’s a key part of educational computers as well. Microsoft’s tossing in a free one-year subscription to Minecraft: Education Edition with Windows 10 S laptops, and making Office 365 for Education free to schools. In addition, any current Windows 10 Pro PC being used by a school can be flashed to Windows 10 S for free. Microsoft’s also adding classroom-focused capabilities to Microsoft Teams.
From this, imagine a school that already has a lot of cheap notebook PCs running Windows 10 and they want to go with windows 10 S.
In other words, from 10 to 10 S is a step up for the school.The 10 S would be a more structured, controlled and managed thing. The sort of thing badly needed in schools.
Unfortunately, it would deprive the students of learning about all the goo and bad things your can do with a computer. But most students need to learn the good first, and do the bad later.
So it was not a full deployment of Windows 10 on a blank computer. But, like you said, it follows
the Android model. There is already a core OS and the update
just adds to what is already three.Still, that is an improvement. Going from Windows 7 to Windows 10 can take over an hour. Microsoft now claims the going from 10 to 10 S should only be a few seconds. Makes sense.