If you mean LTSB for Windows 10, that's only available with Enterprise, which means it's not an option for the kind of power users or small businesses who would have used Pro with 7 or 8.x.
In any case, the idea that you should have to jump through all the hoops involved in running Windows Enterprise just to maintain a reasonable degree of control over your own computers is patently absurd, and like many others, I and my businesses will treat it with the contempt it deserves.
>In any case, the idea that you should have to jump through all the hoops involved in running Windows Enterprise just to maintain a reasonable degree of control over your own computers is patently absurd, and like many others, I and my businesses will treat it with the contempt it deserves.
Well, I certainly hope you've got a very competent security team to assess and control the risks caused by avoiding updates.
In this case, that includes keeping up with the latest updates when they come out, looking up each KBnnnnnnn marked as a security patch, and checking whether it looks good before deciding whether we should install it. It's not rocket science, it's just more difficult than it ought to be since Microsoft stopped putting any helpful information directly in Windows Update. It's still far less hassle than either jumping through Enterprise hoops or experiencing downtime because a Windows Update broke something important and we couldn't block it.
Installing specific KBs works fine until Microsoft stealth patches something, which isn't exactly unheard of.