> Not a disaster recovery option, but bad enough for a migration
Away from Windows?
Microsoft continues to take what's familiar to ordinary users and offer it to enterprises. The latest functionality is Windows Backup for Organizations. First, it's important to clarify that this is not a comprehensive backup solution for a device. It won't image a disk, send copies of files to another location, or enable a …
Linux can be annoying too, but it is less "needlessly annoying". M$ annoying has to many half-arsed points. Only a few things are done really well and the base why MS still exists (NT base set by Dave Cutler. AD base set by ? The luck that powershell made it from a script-hobby to an actual very good shell in v3 and reasonably useful with 5.1. And the Start menu except Windows 8 and 11 - though even the old start menu has a half-arsed quirk when you drag and drop an icon to the desktop it disappeared from the start menu - especially annoying for "all users" start menu on servers when somebody moved the management tools to his personal desktop)
"Microsoft is aiming the tool at administrators who deal with resetting or migrating devices (assuming users are running apps from the Microsoft Store) ..."
Surely ANY SysAdmin would deny use of "Microsoft Store" apps for storing of important data!!??
Seems more like a disaster creator than a "solution"
> Windows Backup .. won't image a disk ..
I've noticed. No doubt I would have to license the industry standard version /s
> It will also back up the list of installed apps from the Microsoft Store and will restore them to the user's Start Menu.
But not any third party apps installed in C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming. I suspect it's to make the process so convoluted that no third party companies can enter the market.