We had this fear back when Apple introduced the Mac App Store. In this way, Microsoft isn't alienating or knee-capping all of its professional users. All they're doing is offering another type of Windows that you can choose to use or install.

They're not taking away a fully functional Windows that allows the installation of non-Store apps and requiring just store apps. Here's the first big win in what Microsoft is doing. And that's where the horror I mentioned at the beginning of this column begins to give way to more of an, 'Oh, yeah. We're not the target demographic for Windows 10 S. We're the folks who manage all of this, use all the power we can find, do complex jobs, build very custom Rube Goldberg-level contraptions to meet certain work needs, and rely on the native flexibility of Windows, not to do stupid things (mostly), but to get our jobs done. By us, I mean all of us old-school professional geeks. At least not yet.īut Windows 10 S isn't meant for us.

Unfortunately, the ScanSnap software also isn't in the Windows Store, so if you need to do bulk document scanning, S isn't for you. They won't work with an iOS machine, even an iPad Pro, because you can't plug a USB scanner into an iPad. We use them to manage the large flow of paper documents we've been dealing with for work and family business. My wife and I have a number of little 25 page-per-minute ScanSnap scanners.

Windows 10 is good