Windows 10: I want to switch from Windows 11 Education to Windows Home or Pro

I have an Acer laptop which comes with Windows 11 Education pre installed.How do i switch to Windows 11 Home or Pro?i treid reinstalling windows 11 Pro with a USB disk and a new key that i bought.after installation the laptop looks to have Windows 11 Pro, but as soon as the updating starts, Windows 11 Pro is gone and the Education version is back.Help........appreciatedRob Manders

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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:

 

How can I move from Windows 11 Education to Pro?

I used Windows 11 Education for work but now I gave the computer to my son and I want to move to Pro.

I bought a product key and tried the steps listed here but it didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

*There is no data on the drive that I want to keep.

 

Windows 11 Pro VS. Windows 11 Pro Education

While there isn't much info about Win 11 Pro Education on MS sites I believe basic rules apply for Win 10 and Win 11 Pro Education. Here is more detailed info about Win 10 Pro Education.

Change to Windows 10 Education from Windows 10 Pro | Microsoft Docs