Originally Posted by
Mike Henderson
With the iPhone, if you buy a new iPhone - or even reset your old one - iCloud will restore your device to exactly the way it was without any effort or activity on your part. I don't see why Microsoft can't do the same thing with Windows 10. You could just sign on to your new machine and tell Microsoft to restore to this device. Microsoft has a record of all your apps and their serial numbers so they can just disable them on your old machine.
Even if they couldn't do every third party application it would greatly reduce the effort to go to a new machine.
Mike
It's a complexity of sources issue. For your iCloud example, everything that is installed on your iDevice is downloaded from a common repository. This is not the case for applications on computers (doesn't matter the OS to be honest).
~mike
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