Who would use 'Enterprise' versions of Windows?

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Curious as to who this version/license is actually aimed at.
You can't seem to get it preinstalled so presumably would have to purchase in addition to the installed copy on a new machine?

The reason I ask is that I was looking at the GP settings for Windows 8 and Metro and one very useful tool, 'Applocker' is only available in the Enterprise version.

This seems somewhat odd.

 

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Interesting, thank you.
For those of you who use it then, do you license as an additional cost to the OS supplied with new PCs. Presumably if that is the case you have to 'rebuild' all new machines, or do you have an arrangement with your supplier to image the machines and avoid the double cost?

Hopefully the above makes sense! I was aware of Enterprise versions but until now not really looked at what it was or how/why it is used.

We are relatively small, approx 200 PCs and typically buy maybe 40 new machines in a year.

 

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Thank you bery much for all the replies, learnt quite a bit about this now.
I might have a chat about it at work and see whether we could look into getting a VL for a few licenses.
I can now see a number od the additional features would be beneficial in certain areas.