Every Single Windows 10 Version You Must Know About
Windows 10 Home
We start with the baseline version of Windows 10. If you were to go into a store and buy a new laptop off the shelf, it would almost certainly have Windows 10 Home on it.
True to its name, it includes the full Windows 10 experience with features that the average home user will enjoy.
You'll find all the staples of Windows 10 inside, including Cortana, Store apps, Xbox connectivity, and support for tablet and touch features. But the Home edition leaves out
some of the business-oriented features of Windows 10 Pro, which is the only other edition you can buy standalone.
Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 Pro builds on what Home offers but includes more features intended for power users and business use. The most prominent differences are the ability to join a
Pro machine to a domain, support for BitLocker encryption, and Group Policy support for easily changing settings on a company-wide scale.
Windows 10 Enterprise
Windows 10 Enterprise is, unsurprisingly, intended for large-scale business use and only sold through Microsoft's volume licensing. Unlike Windows 7, there's no Ultimate
edition of Windows 10 that offers the full set of Enterprise features for home users.
Windows 10 Education
The Education edition of Windows 10 includes all the corporate-ready features of Enterprise. As Microsoft explains, it "is effectively a variant of Windows 10 Enterprise that
provides education-specific default settings." In past versions, this included disabling Cortana by default but she's present in current builds.
We start with the baseline version of Windows 10. If you were to go into a store and buy a new laptop off the shelf, it would almost certainly have Windows 10 Home on it.
True to its name, it includes the full Windows 10 experience with features that the average home user will enjoy.
You'll find all the staples of Windows 10 inside, including Cortana, Store apps, Xbox connectivity, and support for tablet and touch features. But the Home edition leaves out
some of the business-oriented features of Windows 10 Pro, which is the only other edition you can buy standalone.
Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 Pro builds on what Home offers but includes more features intended for power users and business use. The most prominent differences are the ability to join a
Pro machine to a domain, support for BitLocker encryption, and Group Policy support for easily changing settings on a company-wide scale.
Windows 10 Enterprise
Windows 10 Enterprise is, unsurprisingly, intended for large-scale business use and only sold through Microsoft's volume licensing. Unlike Windows 7, there's no Ultimate
edition of Windows 10 that offers the full set of Enterprise features for home users.
Windows 10 Education
The Education edition of Windows 10 includes all the corporate-ready features of Enterprise. As Microsoft explains, it "is effectively a variant of Windows 10 Enterprise that
provides education-specific default settings." In past versions, this included disabling Cortana by default but she's present in current builds.