robjduk Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Technology - Tech News - CNNMoney Thats summer sorted for me then.
localzuk Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Full link - Microsoft is giving Minecraft to schools for free -- here's why - Jun. 9, 2016
Dos_Box Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 The question is, once schools install it, will any actual school work ever get done again? 1
DalekSec Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Already installed it and had a play, it does seem to be lacking quite a lot of features!
Dos_Box Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Already installed it and had a play, it does seem to be lacking quite a lot of features! Such as? I'd be interested to know.
swiftv Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 I'm assuming end portals have no relevance then :-) I have nightmares of pupils mass spawning then incinerating sheep and the HM walking in and asking "So, that's interesting, what are you learning here?" Just waiting for download... Interesting to note that this must be a first for co-releasing an MS product on Mac and PC together. I noted MS was even demoing Sharepoint futures on Mac first last month. Crikey.
DalekSec Posted June 9, 2016 Posted June 9, 2016 Such as? I'd be interested to know. In the 5 minutes i played of it, i couldnt find a way of changing my name, setting whos a teacher and whos a student and failed at trying to place a whiteboard.
KibosJ Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 In the 5 minutes i played of it, i couldnt find a way of changing my name, setting whos a teacher and whos a student and failed at trying to place a whiteboard. Same here, also couldn't place Allow Blocks or Deny blocks.
Joanne Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 I can't install this on my image... because I used LTSB!!! Dem decisions on if staff here would actually use it.... Might have to start AGAIN!!!!!! o.O
DJ-1701 Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 I can't install this on my image... because I used LTSB!!! Dem decisions on if staff here would actually use it.... Might have to start AGAIN!!!!!! o.O Ack, sorry to hear that. It's those gotchas that made me think to stay with the normal branch. I wonder if there will be an LTSB platform update on the Aniversary date which would be able to run this?
GuyJD Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 I can't install this on my image... because I used LTSB!!! Dem decisions on if staff here would actually use it.... Might have to start AGAIN!!!!!! o.OThat sucks, I've just been having a play about with it and I could have swore one of the clients I tested it on was LTSB but when I checked it's just Pro. I've got LTSB on all of our school laptops so I guess this means we won't be using it here either
Joanne Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 Unless there is a way to install the Windows Store on it....
GuyJD Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 Unless there is a way to install the Windows Store on it....I'll have a play about with it, I might be able to get it working.
GuyJD Posted June 10, 2016 Posted June 10, 2016 We'll have to start a new thread it's working for me, didn't do anything special to get it working :/
KibosJ Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 I pushed it out via SCCM and it worked great. It seems to be lacking quite a lot of the MinecraftEdu features though, or am I missing something?
KibosJ Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 It does say it's a preview for feedback etc. That's a fair point. Well hopefully it will grow quickly. I'm going to try and mess with it some more when I have time.
mavhc Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 Not sure which is worse, a java app that wants to write to its own folder or a windows store app. If you DSIM it then existing users on that computer don't get it, seems like a completely messed up system
robjduk Posted June 13, 2016 Author Posted June 13, 2016 There is a link on the store page to download a version to install yourself. I have LTSB and its fine.
Joanne Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 I get this error because Windows Store isn't installed
mavhc Posted June 13, 2016 Posted June 13, 2016 Downloaded the zip file, that's what I was talking about, appx files. How are you supposed to deploy them?
robjduk Posted June 13, 2016 Author Posted June 13, 2016 Give that a right click and run as admin. You may get the smartscreen message but pressing "more info" and "run anyway" will sort ya.
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