In the not-so-distant past, it was quite common place for an IT administrator to purchase a computer with a perfectly good Windows OS preinstalled and then bring it into the corporate environment by re-imaging with a corporate image. The reasons for this vary from organization to organization, but often contain the usual suspects of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) installed cruft, trial applications, or even the wrong SKU of Windows. This is a rather inefficient process that needlessly throws out the whole operating system when only a small subset needs to be reconfigured.
With Windows 10, Microsoft is aiming to change this behavior through a technology known as provisioning packages. Provisioning packages are configuration bundles that can set core OS settings as well as install drivers or applications. There is, perhaps, no better indication of Microsoft...
