Windows 10: Compare Windows 10 Editions

How to: Compare Windows 10 Editions

Compare Features Between Windows 10 Editions


This tutorial will show you a comparison of Windows 10 editions to help find out which Windows is right for you.

Windows 10 has twelve editions (excluding the four "N" editions), all with varying feature sets, use cases, or intended devices. Certain editions are distributed only on devices directly from a device manufacturer, while editions such as Enterprise and Education are only available through volume licensing channels. Microsoft also makes editions of Windows 10 available to device manufacturers for use on specific classes of devices, including smartphones (Windows 10 Mobile) and IoT devices.

For more details, see:

• Introducing Windows 10 Editions | Blogging Windows
• Compare Windows 10 Editions Pro
• Compare Windows 10 Pro E5) Commercial Editions
• Windows 10 editions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Windows 10 Home is the consumer-focused desktop edition. It offers a familiar and personal experience for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. Windows 10 Home will help people do great things, both big and small. With it, they will be more productive and have more fun thanks to a long list of new innovations: Cortana, the worlds most personal digital assistant; the new https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH1D31YHsgY; Continuum tablet mode for touch-capable devices; Windows Hello face-recognition, iris and fingerprint login; and right out of the box, a broad range of universal Windows apps like Photos, Maps, Mail, Calendar, Music and Video*.

We are also bringing the Xbox gaming experience to Windows 10, giving games and gamers access to the Xbox Live gaming community, enabling the capture and share of gameplay and giving Xbox One owners the ability to play their Xbox One games from any Windows 10 PC in their home.

Windows 10 Pro is a desktop edition for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. Building upon both the familiar and innovative features of Windows 10 Home, it has many extra features to meet the diverse needs of small businesses. Windows 10 Pro helps to effectively and efficiently manage their devices and apps, protect their sensitive business data, support remote and mobile productivity scenarios and take advantage of cloud technologies. Windows 10 Pro devices are a great choice for organizations supporting Choose Your Own Device (CYOD) programs and prosumer customers. Windows 10 Pro also lets customers take advantage of the new Windows Update for Business, which will reduce management costs, provide controls over update deployment, offer quicker access to security updates and provide access to the latest innovation from Microsoft on an ongoing basis.

Windows 10 Pro for Workstations is a high-end edition of Windows 10 Pro, comes with unique support for server grade PC hardware and is designed to meet demanding needs of mission critical and compute intensive workloads.

Windows 10 S mode is a specific mode of Windows 10 that offers a familiar, productive Windows experience thats streamlined for security and performance. By exclusively using apps from the Microsoft Store and browsing safely with Microsoft Edge, Windows 10 in S mode keeps you running fast and more secure day in and day out.

Windows 10 Enterprise builds on Windows 10 Pro, adding advanced features designed to meet the demands of medium and large sized organizations. It provides advanced capabilities to help protect against the ever-growing range of modern security threats targeted at devices, identities, applications and sensitive company information. Windows 10 Enterprise also supports the broadest range of options for operating system deployment and comprehensive device and app management. It will be available to our Volume Licensing customers, so they can take advantage of the latest innovation and security updates on an ongoing basis. At the same time, they will be able to choose the pace at which they adopt new technology, including the option to use the new Windows Update for Business. With Windows 10, Enterprise customers will also have access to the Long Term Servicing Branch as a deployment option for their mission critical devices and environments. And as with prior versions of Windows, Active Software Assurance customers in Volume Licensing can upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise as part of their existing Software Assurance benefits.

• Windows 10 Enterprise E3 is the new name for Microsoft's traditional Windows Enterprise with SA offer. Windows 10 Enterprise E3 includes access to Enterprise Edition and the exclusive features that come with it including Credential Guard and Device Guard, as well as extensive manageability and managed user experience. Windows 10 Enterprise E3 also includes Software Assurance benefits, in the VL channels that support SA.
• Windows 10 Enterprise E5 is the newest offer for customers who want to take advantage of everything in E3 with the addition of Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP) – a new service that helps enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks on their networks.

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch) is like Windows 10 Enterprise but will not receive any feature updates, gives companies more control over the update process and is the most stripped down edition of Windows 10 available. It lacks the following applications and features:

• Store including most modern apps like Xbox, Contacts, etc.There are only four remaining modern apps: Contact Support, Search, Settings and Windows Feedback
• Cortana
• Edge

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

Windows 10 Mobile is designed to deliver the best user experience on smaller, mobile, touch-centric devices like smartphones and small tablets. It boasts the same, new universal Windows apps that are included in Windows 10 Home, as well as the new touch-optimized version of Office. Windows 10 Mobile offers great productivity, security and management capabilities for customers who use their personal devices at work. In addition, Windows 10 Mobile will enable some new devices to take advantage of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oi1B9fjVs4, so people can use their phone like a PC when connected to a larger screen.

Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise is designed to deliver the best customer experience to business customers on smartphones and small tablets. It will be available to our Volume Licensing customers. It offers the great productivity, security and mobile device management capabilities that Windows 10 Mobile provides, and adds flexible ways for businesses to manage updates. In addition, Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise will incorporate the latest security and innovation features as soon as they are available.

Windows 10 IoT Core is for small footprint, low cost devices like gateways.






[table][tr][td]Productivity & User Experience Familiar and productive user experience.[/td] [td]Home[/td] [td]Pro[/td] [td]Enterprise E3[/td] [td]Enterprise E5[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Continuum for Phones[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Cortana[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Ink[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Start Menu and Live Tiles[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Tablet Mode[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Voice, pen, touch, and gesture[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Microsoft Edge[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Paint 3D[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [/table]


[table][tr][td]Games[/td] [td]Home[/td] [td]Pro[/td] [td]Enterprise E3[/td] [td]Enterprise E5[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Xbox App[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Xbox controller support (wired)[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]DirectX 12 graphic support[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Game streaming (Xbox One to PC)[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Game DVR[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [/table]


[table][tr][td]Management and deployment Enhanced management features to empower device and app management and deployment[/td] [td]Home[/td] [td]Pro[/td] [td]Enterprise E3[/td] [td]Enterprise E5[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Group Policy[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Mobile Device Management (MDM)[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Enterprise State Roaming with Azure Active Directory[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Azure Active Directory Join[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Domain Join[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Mobile Application Management (MAM)[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Store for Business[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Managed User Experience[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Assigned Access[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Dynamic Provisioning[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Update for Business[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Shared PC configuration[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Shared PC mode[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Take a Test[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Hello Management[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Kiosk Mode[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Manage Windows Store Access[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Manage Consumer Experiences[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Cortana Management[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Microsoft Dynamic Management[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]AppLocker[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Microsoft User Environment Virtualization (UE-V)[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [/table]


[table][tr][td]Security & identity Delivers critical security capabilities you need to secure your device and infrastructure from modern threats[/td] [td]Home[/td] [td]Pro[/td] [td]Enterprise E3[/td] [td]Enterprise E5[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Conditional access[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Trusted Boot[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Device Health Attestation service[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [/table]


[table][tr][td]Analytics & servicing support Helping reduce deployment and support costs of Windows 10 devices in your environment.[/td] [td]Home[/td] [td]Pro[/td] [td]Enterprise E3[/td] [td]Enterprise E5[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Analytics[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Windows Update for Business[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [/table]


[table][tr][td]Windows fundamentals Core features included in Windows[/td] [td]Home[/td] [td]Pro[/td] [td]Enterprise E3[/td] [td]Enterprise E5[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Domain Join[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]BranchCache[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack[/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [/table]


That's it,
Shawn


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