And I bet you've never actually got a Microsoft engineer on the phone either.
As a small company you can get a Microsoft engineer on the phone in under 2 hours; their support is excellent. I imagine a big bank would have an even better arrangement.
That's a trap. The mobo comes with integrated intel, yes. But in most cases the end user also has a discrete card. You can guess which one is actually used.
Depends if its WebGL in a browser nvidia locks you to intel: Option to select the preferred graphics processor is greyed out for IE, Chrome, and Firefox. and https://www.scirra.com/blog/ashley/7/nvidia-hobbles-webgl-performance-on-laptops
having the start button actually does help in one use case, having a windows rdp session. Ever try to remote manage a windows 2012 server via remote desktop without being full screen? It is f-ing hard trying to hit the start corner. I'm happy that they added the start button back even if it only launches the start screen instead of old style menu.
Click application icon top right of the window (the one that gives you drop down of move, restore, close etc)
Then choose Remote Commands, this gives you the options;
Bottom one is what you want.
What happens to ALOT of old windows pc's? They get linux installed on them to give them a few more years of usefulness = a loss of revenue for microsoft.
The old windows pcs are already paid up with the windows software, where is the revenue that MS would be getting from them if they didn't have linux on?
If all else fails, lower your standards.