Introducing Windows 10 Editions

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Windows 10 Home -- Consumer-focused desktop edition with a familiar and personal experience for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. It will include Cortana, Microsoft Edge web browser; Continuum tablet mode for touch-capable devices; Windows Hello face-recognition, iris and fingerprint login; and universal Windows apps like Photos, Maps, Mail, Calendar, Music and Video. (Note: Cortana will be available on Windows 10 at launch in select markets. Windows Hello requires a specialized, illuminated infrared camera for facial recognition or iris detection or a finger print reader which supports the Windows Biometric Framework. Apps and services may vary by market.) Additionally, Xbox One owners will be able to play their XBox One games from any Windows 10 PC in their home.

Windows 10 Mobile -- Designed for smaller, mobile, touch-centric devices like smartphones and small tablets. It includes the same universal Windows apps included in Windows 10 Home, as well as the new touch-optimized version of Office. Windows 10 Mobile will enable some new devices to take advantage of Continuum for phone, so people can use their phone like a PC when connected to a larger screen.

Windows 10 Pro -- Desktop edition for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s which includes the features of Windows 10 Home, has many extra features for small businesses. Windows 10 Pro will provide support for remote and mobile productivity scenarios and take advantage of cloud technologies. Windows 10 will also let customers take advantage of the new Windows Update for Business.

The full versions of Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 Pro will be a free upgrade for qualifying Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices that upgrade in the first year after launch. Once you upgrade, you have Windows 10 for free on that device.



Windows 10 Enterprise -- Builds on Windows 10 Pro, adding advanced features for medium and large sized organizations and will be available to Volume Licensing customers.

Windows 10 Education -- Builds on Windows 10 Enterprise, designed to meet the needs of schools – staff, administrators, teachers and students. This edition will be available through academic Volume Licensing. There will also be paths for schools and students using Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro devices to upgrade to Windows 10 Education.

Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise -- Designed for business customers on smartphones and small tablets and will be available to Volume Licensing customers. Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise will incorporate the latest security and innovation features as soon as they are available.

There will also be versions of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise for industry devices like ATMs, retail point of sale, handheld terminals and industrial robotics and Windows 10 IoT Core for small footprint, low cost devices like gateways.

Summary from: Introducing Windows 10 Editions
 
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Looks like I'll be getting Windows 10 Pro. Yet we'll see a lot of people using Windows 10 Entreprise despite the fact that they don't need it. It's like the users getting Windows 7 Ultimate, just because "it's the highest edition".
 
Ooh - an education specific version - will have to keep an eye out for that, my school is hopefully moving to Windows 10 over the summer.

I'll be upgrading from 8.1 Pro to 10 Pro.
 
Aura said:
Yet we'll see a lot of people using Windows 10 Entreprise despite the fact that they don't need it. It's like the users getting Windows 7 Ultimate, just because "it's the highest edition".
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That may not be the case since the way the article reads, Windows 10 Enterprise "will be available to Volume Licensing customers".
 
Will it "only" be available via Volume Licensing? Also, usually people using Windows 7 Entreprise at home are using a cracked version of it, hence why. So they could be used "cracks" of Windows 10 Entrerprise in the future if there's a way to crack it.
 
I don't know the answer to your question, Aura. I guess we'll have to wait and see. :smile9:
 
Well that's good news. This means that people who will run Windows 10 Entreprise at home: either got the licence from a Volume Licence package (old work computer/laptop, etc. or the permission to install Windows 10 Entreprise on their home computer/laptop and use it for work), or they simply cracked it and activated it illegally. It'll be easier I guess to spot these when we'll encounter them.
 
I hope for God that there's the option to opt-it out during the installation, this is just plainly wrong.
 
It is easy to uninstall any and all Apps on Windows 10 -- and reinstall them again if you change your mind.
 
Still, I fail to see how Microsoft can see this as a "good news". To me it looks like they are taking the users as people who want this to happen, when it's obvious that they don't.
 
Microsoft is coming too mass-consumer orientated, what happened to producing operating systems for people who actually need them for working?

In opinion, they're simply attempting to penetrate Apple's share of the market.
 
x BlueRobot said:
Microsoft is coming too mass-consumer orientated, what happened to producing operating systems for people who actually need them for working?

In opinion, they're simply attempting to penetrate Apple's share of the market.
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Exactly.
Trying to take over another market, especially Apple won't work at all.
They really need to be sticking, and specialising to the market that they do best in.

It seems they're trying to appeal to everyone, which isn't possible. Windows 8 started with it by introducing the metro tiles, which shifted a lot of the users to other operating systems, especially Linux.
(I don't mind the metro tiles, but there should be an option to turn it off.)
Windows 10 will pick up a lot of the pieces that Windows 8 caused for the average customer. As long as they don't introduce this crap that tries to appeal to everyone. Preinstalled apps isn't the answer.
 
Apple has been so successful because it's focused itself on one kind of customer. They've noticed that Microsoft dominates the business user and IT professional market, and so changed their strategy to focus on the average computer user.
 

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