Windows To Go Vs Windows Automated Installation Kit

I understand that Windows 8 Enterprise now includes a program named Windows
to Go that lets you build a portable, bootable Windows 8 boot environment on
a USB key. How does this compare in terms of ease-of-use and functionality
to the Windows PE environment that you can build using the Windows Automated
Installation Kit?

To get Windows To Go I have to commit to the Enterprise Edition. Will
the portable USB key boot on computers where the non-Enterprise versions of
Windows are installed?

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W

W wrote:

I understand that Windows 8 Enterprise now includes a program named
Windows to Go that lets you build a portable, bootable Windows 8 boot
environment on a USB key. How does this compare in terms of
ease-of-use and functionality to the Windows PE environment that you can
build using the Windows Automated Installation Kit?

To get Windows To Go I have to commit to the Enterprise Edition.
Will the portable USB key boot on computers where the non-Enterprise
versions of Windows are installed?

My understanding is that the whole point of WTG is that it shouldn't matter
what's installed on the hard drive. You have to get Enterprise Edition to get
the capability to *make* WTG keys, not to *boot* them. (But... I could be
wrong. YMMV.)

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I'd sooner poke my own eyes out with a spoon.

It happens that W formulated :
I understand that Windows 8 Enterprise now includes a program named Windows
to Go that lets you build a portable, bootable Windows 8 boot environment on
a USB key. How does this compare in terms of ease-of-use and functionality
to the Windows PE environment that you can build using the Windows Automated
Installation Kit?

To get Windows To Go I have to commit to the Enterprise Edition. Will
the portable USB key boot on computers where the non-Enterprise versions of
Windows are installed?

A Windows To Go (WTG) USB stick will boot on any WinTel machine
regardless of what OS or flavor of OS is on the machine. Heck, it will
work on a machine with no hard drive or OS even. It's a completely
portable version of Windows, kind of like a Linux LiveCD.

The WAIK is a system, as the name implies, for system engineers to
automate the installation of Windows in a custom environment. It allows
one to make a custom Windows installer with pre-installed applications
(like when you get an OEM system from Dell or the like).

Auric__ formulated the question :
W wrote:

I understand that Windows 8 Enterprise now includes a program named
Windows to Go that lets you build a portable, bootable Windows 8 boot
environment on a USB key. How does this compare in terms of
ease-of-use and functionality to the Windows PE environment that you can
build using the Windows Automated Installation Kit?

To get Windows To Go I have to commit to the Enterprise Edition.
Will the portable USB key boot on computers where the non-Enterprise
versions of Windows are installed?

My understanding is that the whole point of WTG is that it shouldn't matter
what's installed on the hard drive. You have to get Enterprise Edition to get
the capability to *make* WTG keys, not to *boot* them. (But... I could be
wrong. YMMV.)

You are correct.