Windows 10: Downgrade Window10Pro Education to Windows 10 Pro

I bought a Lenovo N23 80R recently that has Windows 10 Pro Education installed and I need Windows 10 Pro. Is there any way to downgrade it without uninstalling and reinstalling Windows 10 Pro and buying another license for the 10pro edition? I purchased it from Ebay so I don't know the seller.

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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:

 

Windows 10 Automatically Downgraded Education to Pro Education

Hello

I'm running into an issue at work where half my fleet of new machines with Windows 10 Education 1809 is now downgraded to Windows 10 Pro Education.

Why is this happening and how do I get regular Education back?

The below image shows two machines that were imaged an hour apart from each other on Feb 1st. One has Education, the other has Pro Education.

Any Ideas? Thanks

 

How can I convert Windows 10 Pro Education to Pro OEM?

Hi,

To assist you better, kindly provide us more details by answering the following questions:

• Is Windows 10 Pro Education Pre-installed on your computer?
  
• Have you upgraded your computer from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Pro Education? If so, do you still have the product key for Windows 10 Pro?

Meanwhile, you may refer to the steps under Roll back Windows 10 Pro Education to Windows 10 Pro section of this
article.

Should you need further assistance, feel free to get back to us.