[coderobe]

it's a nice quality of life improvement unless you're running low on space. 7+ gb is a lot, especially on embedded devices with low soldered storage - like microsoft's own products! coincidentally instead of offering upgradeable internal storage they upsell really hard on the models with more storage in their surface lineup

if anything, this should be a toggle- if only an opt-out toggle.

fwiw, you can install a linux system including an entire graphical stack with web browser and mail client in that space, twice.

[Wowfunhappy]

This is also going to be a major pain on my Windows VM's. I often only give those ~32 GB of storage to begin with, since they're only for a tiny handful of programs.

I'm assuming there will be a group policy setting I can change, though, since I'm lucky enough to have Windows 10 Pro...

[6c696e7578]

> fwiw, you can install a linux system including an entire graphical stack with web browser and mail client in that space, twice.

I think you could fit quite a few raspberry pi's with GUI environments into 7g.

The OEM and MS alliance has been going for some time now. MS promises HW push, and the OEM promise to sell hardware only with Windows. I am surprised they didn't round it up to 10G.

> if anything, this should be a toggle- if only an opt-out toggle.

I agree, but that doesn't help sell PC's.

ZFS snapshots would reduce the space requirements.