Manipulating demand
We are looking at this from what we would buy for our children rather than what our children would like to have and use. K-12 kids usually get what mummy and daddy buys for them, whereas university kids get to say what best suits their needs. If it were up to the kids, what would they say about W10 S and what it has to offer them?
We have kids in our family who have access to an x.86 desktop, but it is setup with Google as the search engine and the browsers are Chrome and Firefox. We have several x32 apps on the system, but the kids seldom use them. They have never seen Edge, IE or Bing .
Are the kids asking for Windows 10 and what it has to offer? School districts are not promoting whatever MS has on tap. The Education Departments are not referencing the Microsoft Store as having apps that should be included in the curriculum or used by students for study projects or homework. Teachers mostly see W7 systems if they see a Microsoft device (and most are sans IE and Bing).
Yes MS is trying to influence the market to position W10 S as the de facto education OS, but there is no demand for it. The kids, the schools and the governments are not driving the demand and neither are the parents. However with this announcement, parents and teachers are being manipulated, not influenced.
MS is driving the demand.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
