A full 10 versions into their flagship product and they still can't stop with all the 31 flavors nonsense.
Issuing an OS with full functionality regardless of intended use or platform costs them absolutely nothing once the R&D and code are finished.
These aren't models of cars or guitars - their insistence on consumer-bewildering levels of prestige remains a mystery, unless it's because MS reps and other IT types make a buck out of doing the usual rounds of PowerPoint presentations to explain them - along with MS' longstanding obsession with testing MCITP types on the minutiae of differences between versions - such questions are disproportionately represented in their exams which is a tip-off that the marketing tail is wagging the technical dog.
I've worked with, for and next to Microsoft but they are so far behind the curve on some things e.g. web browser it can only be corporate ego that compels them to issue new versions that will be ignored at worst or viewed as me-too-ism at best.
In sum, they cannot seem to shake a certain mindset and it's frustrating because they have the cash and the brainpower to wipe the slate clean stop repeating the same mistakes.
“A full 10 versions into their flagship product and they still can’t stop with all the 31 flavors nonsense. Issuing an OS with full functionality regardless of intended use or platform costs them absolutely nothing once the R&D and code are finished.”
Will the full blown Windows Enterprise run on an ARM processor?
I agree. In the Linux world, you can download different "spins" which are package groups aimed at different uses, like desktop or web server or scientific usage, but any of them can be transformed into the other by the appropriate selection and download of packages.
I can understand a major enterprise vs. non-industrial-server differentiation, but not much else, and certainly not seven levels of differential product crippling.
Actually, there’s a reason why we have Home and Professional editions of Windows 10: Windows 10 Professional contains features designed specifically for large-scale corporate and governmental network environments and are not needed for home or home network users. For most users, Windows 10 Home is easily sufficient for their needs.
Except that the pro and enterprise levels contain stuff 90% of home users will never use or care about.
And why should you even care if they release three or thirty different versions? It is their business not yours. If it works great if not so what, on to the next.