Turns out that was something we shouldn't worry about when it comes to Soundcloud. According to the latest news, it seemed that they had changed CEO with the founder taking on the role of the chairman overseeing the company as he is the founder. Having been the CEO for a long time, he decided to let the other person take over the company as the new CEO after the layoffs. The new CEO of Soundcloud is the one from Vimeo.
At first, when seeing the news about the layoff taking place at Soundcloud, people were worried about the company's closure at the end of summer in which the resourceful music would be gone for good that the artists would have to submit their music elsewhere. The website also includes a bunch of unofficial remixes, mashups, covers to say a few and indeed, I already had tons of unofficial remixes/mashups. Obviously, it is illegal to use them for public performance like the DJ gigs or something even if the ones who did them had given credits whatsoever. One of the tips for the source for legal public performance is the DJ record pools where DJs can take music from there and use them for the gig, provided that they pay the amount every month as part of monthly subscription.
I'm not into financing and investment stuffs but it seemed that the investors, The Raine Group and Temasek, had wrapped up the largest financing round with Soundcloud in its history. Through public pressure, the founder of Soundcloud says that the company is here to stay and that your musical work isn't going anywhere after the summer is over. They may have enough money to keep the company resources going for the time being but...
There might be workarounds from various DJ blogging sites like Digital DJ Tips, DJ Techtools, etc. in case of Soundcloud's closure like posting your remixes/mashups to YouTube, long mixes to Mixcloud, etc. Suffice to say, there are already tons of remixes/mashups/arrangements I made available in my blog, my YouTube account and my Soundcloud account. When it comes to music, the worry might be that big at first when it came to Soundcloud's closure but then, news about Soundcloud's closure isn't the only kind. There may be other things that will be obsolete for real in the future, unlike Soundcloud.
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Disney sued for spying on kids through mobile apps
What was Disney thinking when making those apps suited for children? There may be tons of mobile apps that open doors to collecting too much information and especially that you're not able to adjust the permission in earlier Android OSes for instance.
According to Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by FTC, parents must give permission before information is collected by the apps aimed at kids but is Disney's violation of it such a case?
From the victim parent's claims, it appears that Disney and its partners didn't disclose the information about letting parents know about the data collection, in which the parent, Amanda Rushing, claims that it is a serious violation of the privacy and highly offensive. The lawsuit was already filed against Disney and they were ready to deal with the case in court.
It's not the first kind of news about the kids' privacy being violated through the products suited for them.
According to Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by FTC, parents must give permission before information is collected by the apps aimed at kids but is Disney's violation of it such a case?
From the victim parent's claims, it appears that Disney and its partners didn't disclose the information about letting parents know about the data collection, in which the parent, Amanda Rushing, claims that it is a serious violation of the privacy and highly offensive. The lawsuit was already filed against Disney and they were ready to deal with the case in court.
It's not the first kind of news about the kids' privacy being violated through the products suited for them.
Saturday, August 5, 2017
BLU smartphones banned in Amazon over spyware issues
Update: A recent news update had indicated that things were already safe for the sales of BLU smartphone to resume at Amazon as if it all turned out to be a false alarm.
A bigger lesson than the one for Windows 10 was learnt as the spyware technology was removed in the devices. However, from the deeper report from the researchers, the data collection is still there via the telemetry in which the data collected is stored in the servers in China. Furthermore, the researchers have fears and concerns of security risks for servers in China.
Another concern is that the BLU smartphones are banned from sales by Amazon as it may seem to be an offense to Amazon like selling a phone, tablet, set-top-box, a computer or any other computing device pre-loaded with spyware is an illegal act and an individual, group or a company can be in deep trouble for that sort of sale.
It is controversial ever since last year in which those smartphones were pre-loaded with spyware but until the illegal data collection is completely removed including the telemetry, there will be no point in getting them available according to Amazon.
A bigger lesson than the one for Windows 10 was learnt as the spyware technology was removed in the devices. However, from the deeper report from the researchers, the data collection is still there via the telemetry in which the data collected is stored in the servers in China. Furthermore, the researchers have fears and concerns of security risks for servers in China.
Another concern is that the BLU smartphones are banned from sales by Amazon as it may seem to be an offense to Amazon like selling a phone, tablet, set-top-box, a computer or any other computing device pre-loaded with spyware is an illegal act and an individual, group or a company can be in deep trouble for that sort of sale.
It is controversial ever since last year in which those smartphones were pre-loaded with spyware but until the illegal data collection is completely removed including the telemetry, there will be no point in getting them available according to Amazon.
House renovation update & Century Square renovation rumor
Well, it was a controversial time that my house was involved in the Home Improvement Program three months ago which would obviously lead to what happens now and what will happen in the future. It's more or less an urgent blog update this time as there are rumors of Century Square shopping complex being closed down next month for renovation which may probably mean the relocation of various arcade machines from there to other places. In addition, the location test is still on-going with the upcoming Beatmania IIDX 25.
I don't think that I have tons of energetic mood ever since four months ago in which I felt like suffering even worse than before from that point like the anxiety disorder, panic attack or something but the anxiety disorder is what I can guess a lot ever since being plagued with it like 9 years ago or some sort. Such life-threatening stuffs I discovered that will affect the global future were the ones that caused me to panic. Of course, to suffer from anxiety disorder or worse, panic attack non-stop everyday for no reason is like I may have to seek a doctor or something.
And in addition to that anxiety I have which is still on-going, I have other fears on what those ignorant idiots at home are going to do to me out of their stupidity during the renovation days. We thought that the renovation was over three months ago and that's that with the next phase involving the power source replacement or something in the future. I don't know when but I think that they are incapable of learning to respect and NOT GET TAKEN FOR FOOLS. I communicate to superior people, not those ignorant fools! It was how I got a good time with everyone else. The next renovation involved the kitchen table being replaced as we speak but temporary relocation wasn't needed this time as if I got saved from a bunch of seeds of troubles those idiots are going to cause upon me.
They've better admit and realize the disrespecting mistakes about what I do. The misbehavior and influence were already bad enough during the previous renovation days and the leftover pieces of troubles at Century Square will be like spread over to other places when it gets closed down next month. The weekends during that time were dusty and so were certain days of current renovation time. Perhaps, I swallowed something dusty while drinking something that I may have limited time left but that doesn't seem to be the point.
Furthermore, if Century Square is going to be renovated, the future arcade trips will be as costly as I went to Bugis Junction ever since 4 years ago. I don't know where those arcade machines will be relocated to but people probably guess the rumored new Bugis+ arcade center.
I don't think that I have tons of energetic mood ever since four months ago in which I felt like suffering even worse than before from that point like the anxiety disorder, panic attack or something but the anxiety disorder is what I can guess a lot ever since being plagued with it like 9 years ago or some sort. Such life-threatening stuffs I discovered that will affect the global future were the ones that caused me to panic. Of course, to suffer from anxiety disorder or worse, panic attack non-stop everyday for no reason is like I may have to seek a doctor or something.
And in addition to that anxiety I have which is still on-going, I have other fears on what those ignorant idiots at home are going to do to me out of their stupidity during the renovation days. We thought that the renovation was over three months ago and that's that with the next phase involving the power source replacement or something in the future. I don't know when but I think that they are incapable of learning to respect and NOT GET TAKEN FOR FOOLS. I communicate to superior people, not those ignorant fools! It was how I got a good time with everyone else. The next renovation involved the kitchen table being replaced as we speak but temporary relocation wasn't needed this time as if I got saved from a bunch of seeds of troubles those idiots are going to cause upon me.
They've better admit and realize the disrespecting mistakes about what I do. The misbehavior and influence were already bad enough during the previous renovation days and the leftover pieces of troubles at Century Square will be like spread over to other places when it gets closed down next month. The weekends during that time were dusty and so were certain days of current renovation time. Perhaps, I swallowed something dusty while drinking something that I may have limited time left but that doesn't seem to be the point.
Furthermore, if Century Square is going to be renovated, the future arcade trips will be as costly as I went to Bugis Junction ever since 4 years ago. I don't know where those arcade machines will be relocated to but people probably guess the rumored new Bugis+ arcade center.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Offensive domain name on Arch Linux
Some host used an offensive domain name or domain mirror address for one of the Arch Linux packages in the repository. I don't know which repository contained such offensive in one of the packages but this is an act of suspicious distribution to the server for victims to download/install without realizing something.
Perhaps, that person/host had done, fucked it up! It's a serious trouble he had landed into without realizing it! For an offensive reference taking place in the IT-land, it takes us back to the days of Mirai-Botnet where such bad acts had been done with some cartoonish references. Cartoonish reference, indeed, the name of the botnet and the nickname of the culprit referenced various J-cartoons but here, the offensive domain name has the reference to under-aged kids according to the Urban dictionary.
Obviously, who knows the true motive of the host behind the offensive domain name like people think that he wants to sell fictional under-aged characters online or something. But if you want to put in some J-cartoon stuff as part of the IT product, THEN DO THE GOOD THINGS LIKE COLLATERAL DAMAGE STUDIOS DID WITH PROMOTING INTERNET EXPLORER A FEW YEARS AGO! Like, I don't know how could someone use the J-cartoon reference thingy to do a bunch of bad things in the IT-land. Such bad actions like the ones stated above could essentially land the baddies like that host in deep trouble, a trouble THAT'S WORSE THAN A HOT SPRING SOMEONE WILL PANIC IN!
To the host whose nickname is 'Alucard', that doesn't even count as a nickname due to the complete lack of originality. And to even DARE TO DEFEND this offensive domain of choice like the offended users are whining or something, the punishment awaits regardless of this kind of mistake and damage done! Perhaps, that host is heavily obsessed or something that he comes up with this sort of domain name. Plus, I don't know if that person is actually working for some ISP in Portugal or not and especially that he mentions things like freedom of speech in a wrong way. Maybe his freedom method is a wrong one.
It's not the first time someone in the community was offended. The previous time was regarding the license code and certain of them can be offensive although they are randomly generated by the system and offending codes were likely to be removed by the organization. What about the offending names, has someone reported them?
To make things as professional as possible is a good thing and especially for everything written down on the Arch Linux official website including the names of the packages, domains, repositories and even codenames. But it's not like Arch Linux and its derivatives will be on the tracking list all because of offensive stuffs like the offensive domain name as if the host by the nickname of 'Alucard', will be tracked down after weeks, months or even years. To tamper with the domain names that lead to the official sources by changing redirection path or to make some offensive domain names that lead to the same source is already bad enough but I have a fear in my mind like what if someone tampers with the system component files inside the ISO and then redistributes that modification to the official download source? That kind of fear IT-persons have is a lesson for themselves, NOT to install, distribute, deploy or even bundle such radicalized packages/features/components to various computer devices regardless of whether they are for home use, personal use, school use or even work use. Since some package was considered radicalized due to the offending domain name, you may as well find a more professional domain that leads to the clean package to install.
And of course, I have the new terms, W**b-Domainer and W**b-Package-Includer:
Perhaps, that person/host had done, fucked it up! It's a serious trouble he had landed into without realizing it! For an offensive reference taking place in the IT-land, it takes us back to the days of Mirai-Botnet where such bad acts had been done with some cartoonish references. Cartoonish reference, indeed, the name of the botnet and the nickname of the culprit referenced various J-cartoons but here, the offensive domain name has the reference to under-aged kids according to the Urban dictionary.
Obviously, who knows the true motive of the host behind the offensive domain name like people think that he wants to sell fictional under-aged characters online or something. But if you want to put in some J-cartoon stuff as part of the IT product, THEN DO THE GOOD THINGS LIKE COLLATERAL DAMAGE STUDIOS DID WITH PROMOTING INTERNET EXPLORER A FEW YEARS AGO! Like, I don't know how could someone use the J-cartoon reference thingy to do a bunch of bad things in the IT-land. Such bad actions like the ones stated above could essentially land the baddies like that host in deep trouble, a trouble THAT'S WORSE THAN A HOT SPRING SOMEONE WILL PANIC IN!
To the host whose nickname is 'Alucard', that doesn't even count as a nickname due to the complete lack of originality. And to even DARE TO DEFEND this offensive domain of choice like the offended users are whining or something, the punishment awaits regardless of this kind of mistake and damage done! Perhaps, that host is heavily obsessed or something that he comes up with this sort of domain name. Plus, I don't know if that person is actually working for some ISP in Portugal or not and especially that he mentions things like freedom of speech in a wrong way. Maybe his freedom method is a wrong one.
It's not the first time someone in the community was offended. The previous time was regarding the license code and certain of them can be offensive although they are randomly generated by the system and offending codes were likely to be removed by the organization. What about the offending names, has someone reported them?
To make things as professional as possible is a good thing and especially for everything written down on the Arch Linux official website including the names of the packages, domains, repositories and even codenames. But it's not like Arch Linux and its derivatives will be on the tracking list all because of offensive stuffs like the offensive domain name as if the host by the nickname of 'Alucard', will be tracked down after weeks, months or even years. To tamper with the domain names that lead to the official sources by changing redirection path or to make some offensive domain names that lead to the same source is already bad enough but I have a fear in my mind like what if someone tampers with the system component files inside the ISO and then redistributes that modification to the official download source? That kind of fear IT-persons have is a lesson for themselves, NOT to install, distribute, deploy or even bundle such radicalized packages/features/components to various computer devices regardless of whether they are for home use, personal use, school use or even work use. Since some package was considered radicalized due to the offending domain name, you may as well find a more professional domain that leads to the clean package to install.
And of course, I have the new terms, W**b-Domainer and W**b-Package-Includer:
- W**b-Package-Includer: The person who includes the package in the OS ISO image that has the offensive references to the cartoons.
- W**b-Domainer: The person who makes a domain and/or directs users to it containing the offensive references to the cartoons, turning users into victims.
Linux Format Magazine obtained
Perhaps, I forgot to blog about the magazine I got from the book store two months ago but it seemed that things were not going well in the renovation days like those ignorant morons at home had manipulated my uncle and aunt to disrespect the hell out of me and made seeds of troubles with their bad influence as if the troubles would be born in the public places for instance. Those kinds of things were obviously inexcusable reasons for temporary relocation due to the on-going renovation as part of the home improvement program and it has been still on-going elsewhere. I don't know what are they up to against me next but I don't want my reputation to turn out so bad because of their stupidity.
The magazine looked like a rare find for me and it contained tons of interesting Linux articles including the Ubuntu 17.04 release with AMD support inside the Linux kernel 4.10 as well as the Gnome 3.24. There are also pages that teach us additional terminal stuffs like Advanced Terminal Profiles, Pro-level firewall, own Ubuntu Router and even programming with Django.
Starting with the first page is the Pondesk where it has the mini-PCs along with the enterprise-use routers and servers. Other things being mentioned included Raspberry Pi, Google Wifi, Parrot Security OS, FreeNAS Corral and 4MLinux.
Other OSes being mentioned in the magazine have RancherOS, KAOS, Tiny Core Linux, OpenELEC, TalkingARCH and NutyX. RancherOS may seem to be for work use from my assumption due to the fact that it offers Docker features for you to set up with. OpenELEC seems to be using the Kodi platform, TalkingArch is like the accessibility version of Arch Linux and it can be stupidly insulting and offensive for anyone telling me to enable some accessibility features or even use this OS for myself over one's false assumptions and rumors stating whatever problems I have. Like the more those morons stated above spread the stupid false rumors about me to the others, the more ignorant they are in my opinion. Also, it looked like I got even more isolated from them due to their unsolved offenses that eventually caused more recent ones but I still care for people's freedom as well as the fact that I nowadays respect my friends on social media by particular topic I can share about.
The 60 pages of tutorials and features were quite advanced enough that it put my current Linux knowledge to shame as if I don't know other Linux terminal commands and stuffs and the other programming language is something I don't know of and I still find programming a pain.
Lastly, the magazine contained the free copy of the DVD-ROM disc containing the bootable Ubuntu 17.04 along with Linux Lite ISOs. I have no idea on how you can boot from an ISO image inside the DVD-ROM disc. It's like booting from a virtual floppy disk image inside the hard disk or something. Unfortunately, I got like two copies instead of one as if it was the staff's mistake or something. The magazine should contain one and that's pretty much it but instead, it contained the DVDs on the front and at the last page. That looked like one extra DVD and its sleeve wasted as part of that mistake. But since there wasn't anything suspicious inside the magazine or the DVD sleeves, I let good things off the hook in the end but I don't know if I can tell someone about duplicate DVD copies in the magazine as everything was fine in purchasing that magazine except the duplicate copy thing which I didn't find it fine out of my worry as a customer. The DVDs might be free copies of course but I still felt that it was a mistake to have two copies in a magazine. I still wonder if the mistake laid with the staff or maybe the magazine service the shop imported the magazines from. I'm sure that I bought the magazine fine before I found out about duplicate copy thingy.
And that's about it! It was a long time without any blog post of this month and some of the shops were changed recently or something. However, as of this writing, it seems that those ignorants as stated at the beginning had asked for another renovation, this time, targeting the kitchen and the room doors. I didn't know what were they planning in this case but it turned out that relocation was unnecessary. Not to mention that my laptop's power adapter was messed up because of their bad influence and stupidity and especially that my Android tablet's charging cable was getting close to being as loose as the power adapter. The last thing I fear is that the craziness level had been getting higher or some sort.
The magazine looked like a rare find for me and it contained tons of interesting Linux articles including the Ubuntu 17.04 release with AMD support inside the Linux kernel 4.10 as well as the Gnome 3.24. There are also pages that teach us additional terminal stuffs like Advanced Terminal Profiles, Pro-level firewall, own Ubuntu Router and even programming with Django.
Starting with the first page is the Pondesk where it has the mini-PCs along with the enterprise-use routers and servers. Other things being mentioned included Raspberry Pi, Google Wifi, Parrot Security OS, FreeNAS Corral and 4MLinux.
Other OSes being mentioned in the magazine have RancherOS, KAOS, Tiny Core Linux, OpenELEC, TalkingARCH and NutyX. RancherOS may seem to be for work use from my assumption due to the fact that it offers Docker features for you to set up with. OpenELEC seems to be using the Kodi platform, TalkingArch is like the accessibility version of Arch Linux and it can be stupidly insulting and offensive for anyone telling me to enable some accessibility features or even use this OS for myself over one's false assumptions and rumors stating whatever problems I have. Like the more those morons stated above spread the stupid false rumors about me to the others, the more ignorant they are in my opinion. Also, it looked like I got even more isolated from them due to their unsolved offenses that eventually caused more recent ones but I still care for people's freedom as well as the fact that I nowadays respect my friends on social media by particular topic I can share about.
The 60 pages of tutorials and features were quite advanced enough that it put my current Linux knowledge to shame as if I don't know other Linux terminal commands and stuffs and the other programming language is something I don't know of and I still find programming a pain.
Lastly, the magazine contained the free copy of the DVD-ROM disc containing the bootable Ubuntu 17.04 along with Linux Lite ISOs. I have no idea on how you can boot from an ISO image inside the DVD-ROM disc. It's like booting from a virtual floppy disk image inside the hard disk or something. Unfortunately, I got like two copies instead of one as if it was the staff's mistake or something. The magazine should contain one and that's pretty much it but instead, it contained the DVDs on the front and at the last page. That looked like one extra DVD and its sleeve wasted as part of that mistake. But since there wasn't anything suspicious inside the magazine or the DVD sleeves, I let good things off the hook in the end but I don't know if I can tell someone about duplicate DVD copies in the magazine as everything was fine in purchasing that magazine except the duplicate copy thing which I didn't find it fine out of my worry as a customer. The DVDs might be free copies of course but I still felt that it was a mistake to have two copies in a magazine. I still wonder if the mistake laid with the staff or maybe the magazine service the shop imported the magazines from. I'm sure that I bought the magazine fine before I found out about duplicate copy thingy.
And that's about it! It was a long time without any blog post of this month and some of the shops were changed recently or something. However, as of this writing, it seems that those ignorants as stated at the beginning had asked for another renovation, this time, targeting the kitchen and the room doors. I didn't know what were they planning in this case but it turned out that relocation was unnecessary. Not to mention that my laptop's power adapter was messed up because of their bad influence and stupidity and especially that my Android tablet's charging cable was getting close to being as loose as the power adapter. The last thing I fear is that the craziness level had been getting higher or some sort.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Windows 10 S
Whether it's Chrome OS on Chromebooks or Windows 10 S for educational use, you're pretty much out of luck as they happen to contain the privacy violation stuff that cannot be disabled. You may as well study traditionally if you will and even then, your own electronics are obviously not allowed in schools. In tertiary schools like universities, it may be a different story.
Windows 10 S is said to allow apps from Windows Store to be opened whether it's a Modern UI app or a Win32 app. Problem is, anything outside of that won't be opened and the worse thing is that the computers using Windows 10 S are unlikely to be using ARM-based processors. Windows 10 computers and tablets with ARM-based processors using Windows 10 Mobile will soon open doors to using X86 apps although it can be a bigger disaster for Windows Phones as many of the traditional apps are not touch-friendly.
Citrix's Receiver is a bigger rescuing solution. It allows you to use X86 apps on Windows 10 Mobile, Surface Hub, Hololens, IOTs and even Windows 10 S devices. It is useful for tablets, Surface Hub, IOTs and of course Windows 10 S computers but for Windows 10 S computers, the only handy thing about this solution is that students can go to Chrome, Google search engine, Microsoft Office desktop version and other tools needed depending on the course taken. But still, Windows 10 Education Edition is a better bet than Windows 10 S when it comes to educational use in tertiary schools and policies like GPOs still have to be implemented as part of computer deployment for school use.
What about computer labs in elementary and middle schools then? Will they use Windows 10 S or what? I may be sure that edutainment software is NOT likely to be compatible with Windows 10 S so the Education edition is a BETTER CHOICE FOR THOSE COMPUTER LABS!
I'm sure that there are still IT technicians handling computer stuffs in schools regardless of the educational level of whatever school they're in like they handle the policies, student accounts, software for educational uses and even the edition of the OS for educational purpose. Hell, there's even the school network but depending on the school, either the student's computer gets it connected by the technicians or maybe it's a computer in the lab that is immobilized already set up by them.
Privacy protection-wise, you can choose to exclude the default Modern apps but the problem is that Command Prompt or Powershell WON'T BE SUPPORTED! It is good that way considering the fact it is an edition for educational use and prohibition of those tools is due to user misuse or some kind in which one specific stuff will deliver greater technical damage without the student's knowing. Not even Linux OSes obtained from the Windows Store will be supported as well as if they're too complicated or something.
Lastly, upgrades to Pro edition are reasonable in tertiary schools but there are already hopes and lessons in keeping students cautious on what to do and what not to do to the school computers. There are already better solutions for educational uses out there like using Chromebooks or perhaps using Windows 10 Education Edition. Even better about Windows 10 Education Edition is that it is based on Windows 10 Enterprise so that the IT Professionals in schools have full control. Hell, there's even the Pro Education Edition which removes Windows Store, Windows Spotlight and Cortana by default. At least you won't see any student making some stupid noise or nonsense to Cortana that way, otherwise, the main fault may go to the IT people who allow Cortana to be enabled.
Windows 10 S is said to allow apps from Windows Store to be opened whether it's a Modern UI app or a Win32 app. Problem is, anything outside of that won't be opened and the worse thing is that the computers using Windows 10 S are unlikely to be using ARM-based processors. Windows 10 computers and tablets with ARM-based processors using Windows 10 Mobile will soon open doors to using X86 apps although it can be a bigger disaster for Windows Phones as many of the traditional apps are not touch-friendly.
Citrix's Receiver is a bigger rescuing solution. It allows you to use X86 apps on Windows 10 Mobile, Surface Hub, Hololens, IOTs and even Windows 10 S devices. It is useful for tablets, Surface Hub, IOTs and of course Windows 10 S computers but for Windows 10 S computers, the only handy thing about this solution is that students can go to Chrome, Google search engine, Microsoft Office desktop version and other tools needed depending on the course taken. But still, Windows 10 Education Edition is a better bet than Windows 10 S when it comes to educational use in tertiary schools and policies like GPOs still have to be implemented as part of computer deployment for school use.
What about computer labs in elementary and middle schools then? Will they use Windows 10 S or what? I may be sure that edutainment software is NOT likely to be compatible with Windows 10 S so the Education edition is a BETTER CHOICE FOR THOSE COMPUTER LABS!
I'm sure that there are still IT technicians handling computer stuffs in schools regardless of the educational level of whatever school they're in like they handle the policies, student accounts, software for educational uses and even the edition of the OS for educational purpose. Hell, there's even the school network but depending on the school, either the student's computer gets it connected by the technicians or maybe it's a computer in the lab that is immobilized already set up by them.
Privacy protection-wise, you can choose to exclude the default Modern apps but the problem is that Command Prompt or Powershell WON'T BE SUPPORTED! It is good that way considering the fact it is an edition for educational use and prohibition of those tools is due to user misuse or some kind in which one specific stuff will deliver greater technical damage without the student's knowing. Not even Linux OSes obtained from the Windows Store will be supported as well as if they're too complicated or something.
Lastly, upgrades to Pro edition are reasonable in tertiary schools but there are already hopes and lessons in keeping students cautious on what to do and what not to do to the school computers. There are already better solutions for educational uses out there like using Chromebooks or perhaps using Windows 10 Education Edition. Even better about Windows 10 Education Edition is that it is based on Windows 10 Enterprise so that the IT Professionals in schools have full control. Hell, there's even the Pro Education Edition which removes Windows Store, Windows Spotlight and Cortana by default. At least you won't see any student making some stupid noise or nonsense to Cortana that way, otherwise, the main fault may go to the IT people who allow Cortana to be enabled.
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