[Intro]
Once upon a time, in 2018, Microsoft released the Surface Hub 2, a monoblock with a large touchscreen display and Windows 10 OS.
It should be an ideal tool for several people to work together.
Basically something that looks like some sort of digital board.
This monoblock ran on a special version of Windows 10 - Windows 10 Team.
About this edition almost nothing is known, even a trivial search on the Internet gives not enough results and any valid information for me.
Windows 10 contains in addition to the typical editions, such as Pro, Home, Enterprise, LTSC, and Team.
As previously mentioned, this is a specially created edition for Surface Hub monoblocks.
This version of Windows 10 is not available for download from Microsoft's site, but you can build it using the UUPDump site. However, I would like to say that UUPDump is paralyzed for Russians and Belarusians in the second quarter of 2022 for you know what reasons.
Therefore, you have to download everything using a VPN.
I've already done all that, so...
...in this video we will look at this system in detail, install it and actually make some conclusions.
Boot from the image and start the installation. In general, as you can see, installing Windows 10 Team is no different from installing the full Windows 10.
It even has a command line and Win32 applications in general. You'll find out why I focus on this later in this video.
Otherwise, the stages are no different and at first glance it may seem that I'm playing a trick on you and installing the usual Windows 10, but no
Traditionally, we pretend to read the license agreement; with a serious face, we mark up the partitions for ourselves and start unpacking the files.
The restart is the second step of the installation with the typical device setup and preparation for the OOBE.
After the second step of the installation, we don't see a blue screen that says "Just a moment" like in Win 10, but a semi-transparent Windows logo that says "Just a moment".
And the OOBE appears before us.
[Cortana sounds]
[Cortana sounds] shut up plz thx
At the beginning, we are asked to choose the region in which we are living. I will use "USA" as an example.
And I choose the American keyboard layout. It's just like a normal Windows keyboard.
Then there is the installation of some "important" things and a window appears with the configuration of the device account.
It initially asks for a Microsoft account, username, or workgroup domain. A password is also suggested at the bottom.
But we don't need that, so I just skip that step.
Next, we are asked to enter the name of the device and the name that will be shown when other people connect to your device. I couldn't think of anything in the first field, but in the second field I'll write like this
You have to agree, really :D
Next, we are offered to register our device in some Active Directory domain, Microsoft Azure service, or simply to create an account that will be available only within the system and this device, that is, an offline account.
I personally don't want to join anywhere, so I'll just create an offline account.
But there by the classics: the name of the future account; password, by the way this stage can not be skipped, but an amazing thing for Windows;...
...and set basic privacy settings.
After entering all the data we are waiting for a reboot, I do not know why, but okay, let's consider it as a normal phenomenon
After restarting, a silenced Cortana tells us that the OOBE is complete and that we are ready to log in to the account. And, in fact, we log in to the account.
However, I hasten to say that there is no task manager; Ctrl+Alt+Del combination - it shows a black screen for a millisecond;...
...NO command line and Shift+F10 combination. There's not even such a thing as a desktop.
So, we are logged into the account and now here we see the date and time; an inscription that it is now preparing for the next session; and in the upper left corner we see debugging information in the form of the build number, the IP address of the device and its model.
After all the preparations and other tedious nonsense is completed, the background appears in front of us;...
...tiles to quickly create a group call, open a Microsoft Whiteboard, and connect to a device or network.
The Start menu on this system looks like this - four tabs: main, list of all applications, account, and tab for closing the session.
Not the shutdown, but the end of the session - when you press it, the device should go to sleep mode, but in our case it just serves as a restart in the account.
From the list of applications here is a calculator, clock, Office 365 applications, Microsoft Edge, maps, Photos app, OneDrive and some applications from Windows 10 Mobile in the form of "Explorer" and "Camera".
No Win32 applications are listed here - forget about it.
When you start an application, it immediately occupies the entire screen - you can not drag windows, only tiling, as it was in the ModernUI applications of Windows 8.
Instead of the "Minimize", "Maximize", and "Close" buttons, there are the "Close", "Full screen", and "Take a screenshot" buttons. The last button actually creates a screenshot of the window and opens it in Whiteboard for later editing.
If we close all applications, we are simply shown a darkened background and the text "Open apps in Start or tap the End session"
The taskbar here is also interesting: on the right there is a time display, clicking on it opens the standard calendar;...
...notification panel and other settings, but they are very sparse here: volume, DND mode, reboot the device and activation of accessibility features.
And the name of our account is shown on the left.
So, now let's look at "what's in Settings".
And there's only one section - a lot.
But this shows a list of settings that are available to the average user. If you log in with administrator rights, the list is much wider. But still there are not so many of them.
The first item contains account settings; device and app management;...
...personalization, which contains only a change of background and a tab that shows information about the device.
The "Devices" tab just shows a list of all connected devices and a button to add a new one - nothing more.
The "Network and Internet" tab is exactly the same.
In general, the settings are quite sparse compared to the usual Windows 10, but then again - for the usual multimedia board such settings are enough.
Now let's move on to Windows Explorer. As mentioned above, it is from Windows 10 Mobile and has no access to the system disk partition.
EXE files cannot be opened in the system here, the system asks a la "Can I find an application in the Microsoft Store that understands this format?"
But come to think of it, you can obviously run EXE applications here, only you have to try harder with that - it's Windows, lol.
The system comes standard with Microsoft Office 365 in the form of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
There's also a Microsoft Store in the system - but you can't find it in Start, it's hidden for some reason, which is weird; and there are essentially no apps here for Surface Hub, right at all.
And the applications that are designed for PCs won't work here - the Store simply won't let you install them.
And you know, looking at all of this, I remember a version of Windows that was canceled in 2021 that is very similar to what I'm looking at right now.
Hmmm..
No, I don't think so :'D
What's the result?
Can I say that this system is useless?
No.
Of course, it is not suitable for the average user, but it will work fine on interactive whiteboards, either Microsoft's, or from other manufacturers.
But one thing can be said unequivocally - it is very strongly and deliberately shortened.
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