Windows 10: 8.1 to 10 - Home vs Pro

Been out of the loop for around 12 days and I am curious about the upgrade to 10. After trying various TP's on a separate hard drive I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my 8.1 using 10166, it was then updated to 10240 as a pro edition. After missing the 29th launch I got back in town and updated 10240 via WU. I now have an activated 10 install Pro version even though my 8.1 was the home edition.

At what point will Win 10 revert to the home edition? If I stay in the insider program will it remain pro? If at some point I want to clean install I'm assuming it will get the home ver as that is what I d/l using MCT to create a USB install. Winver indicates 10 Pro licensed to me and HP, which makes sense.

I see no reason for a clean install at the moment but we all know I will do it at some point.

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Roll it back to windows pro 8.1

Original Title: windows 10 pro vs windows pro 8.1

I purchased a Surface Pro 4 with windows 10 pro, as wiindows 10 sucks can i roll it back to windows pro 8.1

 

Windows 10 upgrade?

Once upgraded to Windows 10 Home there is absolutely no benefit over Windows 7 Home Premium over Windows 7 Starter. Microsoft have decided to simplify the number of Editions for Windows 10 due to the many complains they got with the many different editions
of Windows 8.1 and not clearly distinguishing them.

Windows 7 Starter → Windows 10 Home

Windows 7 Starter N → Windows 10 Home

[*]Windows 7 Home Basic → Windows 10 Home
[*]Windows 7 Home Premium → Windows 10 Home
[*]Windows 7 Home Premium N → Windows 10 Home
[*]Windows 8.1 → Windows 10 Home
[*]Windows 8.1N → Windows 10 Home
[*]Windows 8.1 Single Language → Windows 10 Home
[*]Windows 8.1 with Bing → Windows 10 Home
[*]Windows 8.1 Single Language with Bing → Windows 10 Home
[*]Windows 7 Professional → Windows 10 Pro
[*]Windows 7 Professional N → Windows 10 Pro
[*]Windows 7 Ultimate → Windows 10 Pro
[*]Windows 7 Ultimate N → Windows 10 Pro
[*]Windows 8.1 Pro → Windows 10 Pro
[*]Windows 8.1 Pro N → Windows 10 Pro
[*]Windows 8.1 Pro (Student) → Windows 10 Pro
[*]Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Centre → Windows 10 Pro

Note if that is a full license (non-OEM license) you can transfer it and revert your machine back to Windows 7 Starter allowing you to upgrade two PCs to Windows 10.