Windows 10: Activating Windows 10 Education

Discus and support Activating Windows 10 Education in Windows 10 Updates and Activation to solve the problem; Hi,So my university offers students Windows 10 Education for free. I tried to upgrade my windows from the current one to Windows 10 Education by... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Updates and Activation' started by artandmel, Jul 5, 2021.

  1. artandmel Win User

    Activating Windows 10 Education


    Hi,So my university offers students Windows 10 Education for free. I tried to upgrade my windows from the current one to Windows 10 Education by clicking the "change product key". After I enter, it went to preparing and such, and it says "make sure you're connected to internet". I closed it, restarted the wi-fi and re-enter the code, and now it says "The product key you entered didn't work. Check the product key and try again, or enter a different one."Does it mean I just lost the product key because somehow it refuses to install Windows 10 education on the first try?

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    artandmel, Jul 5, 2021
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  2. Teo Dida Win User

    Activating WINDOWS 10 Education

    Does it matter that this article is about Windows 10 Pro or do I have to follow the same steps to activate windows education on Windows 10 Home?Thanks a lot
     
    Teo Dida, Jul 5, 2021
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  3. Irisdiel H, Jul 5, 2021
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  4. Kari Win User

    Activating Windows 10 Education

    Windows 10 Education Pro

    I've not had an opportunity to test Pro Education edition yet but I am running normal Education on a Hyper-V virtual machine and on dual boot with Pro on a laptop. Basically Education is exactly as Enterprise, meant for domain or Azure AD use. Main differences when compared to Pro are missing Cortana and no possibility to use Microsoft account as initial user account when setting up Windows, although when selecting initial user as local domain user a normal local account will be created which can then be switched to a Microsoft account instead of joining a domain.

    Native Windows apps in Windows 10 Education edition are the same than in Pro edition, Cortana being the only exception.

    If you already have setup Windows 10 Pro on your machines with a customised image I can see no benefits in doing the job again deploying an almost similar OS. This is of course only my personal subjective opinion based on what I know at the moment; I have no knowledge or insight about what additional features (see highlighted part in quote below) Pro Education might be and if they would be reason enough to upgrade to Pro Education.

    Quote from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...tion-customers:

     
    Kari, Jul 5, 2021
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