![]() Microsoft will never publish a feature update like the Anniversary Update or November Update for Windows 10 LTSB. (3) "Because the LTSB version is designed for stability, it’s updated very differently from other builds of Windows 10. According to this article ( plained/): (1) It doesn’t come with Windows Store, Cortana, Microsoft Edge browser, Calendar, Camera, Clock, Mail, Money, Music, News, OneNote, Sports, and Weather. It’s called Windows 10 Long-Term Service Branch (LTSB). Step two: how to get a lean version of Windows, without Cortana and the dozens (if not hundreds) of unneeded, unnecessary junk to take up space on my 256G drive and 8G of RAM? Well, I learned that Windows makes such a version of Windows 10 for single-function mission critical applications in the enterprise market (e.g ATMs, manufacturing, etc.). It’s no longer in the App store, but available from Veertu directly. It is very secure, but has a number of limitations, However, those limitations are negligible for those of us who only want to run Quicken for Windows while simultaneously running Mac OS. It uses Mac's hypervisor framework that Apple built into OS X. A new virtual machine called Veertu Desktop ( ) is very lightweight (13.7MB!) and free. It’s similar to the alternative in concept (virtual machine plus Windows), but not in size or execution. Well, I found a solution that works well, at least for now, is not expensive, and is worth sharing. However, I really did not want to load up my Mac with a virtual machine such as Parallels or VMware Fusion - AND Windows… They are incredibly bloated and use a LOT of disk space and RAM (and are not inexpensive). I rely heavily on Quicken for Windows I use it to manage not only my personal finances, but also a small investment partnership and two family trusts, so when I saw that the releases after R10 involved an irreversible transition from Intuit ID to Quicken ID, I realized that in order to keep using Quicken (at least in the near term), I had to find an alternative to CrossOver. New releases now frequently prevent us from using Quicken at all I’ve had to “roll back” from new versions to previous versions several times. For each release, it takes time, effort and resources to evaluate and resolve all the changes so Quicken can work again. What this means for CrossOver is that the great people at Codeweavers is extremely challenged to keep up with the pace of these changes. Quicken issued five (5) new releases in just the last month! The other thing they’ve been doing is re-designing their update capabilities such that users will no longer be able to decide whether or when to update Quicken. Now, however, Quicken is working hard to demonstrate a higher level of commitment to their customer base by releasing fixes and improvements much more frequently (called “continuous delivery”) and they presumably have deadline commitments to Intuit to stop depending on Intuit ID. That didn’t use to be a huge deal since (a) such releases were infrequent, and (b) us users were able to wait for the impacts of the release to be analyzed and the modifications to be made, tested and released. When Quicken issues a new release of their software, the good people at Codeweavers frequently must modify CrossOver to accommodate the changes. After the notices we have recently received from Quicken about the coming changes with the transition from Intuit, I was afraid concerned. ![]()
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