Windows 10: Microsoft 10 Education

My supplier has supplied a laptop with Windows 10 education instead of windows 10 pro. Is it legitimate for use in a manufacturing environment?

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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:

 

Microsoft in Education

Hi Jack,



Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.



I understand that you are facing issues with Microsoft in Education course . I apologize for the inconvenience caused to you.



I suggest you to contact the Microsoft education support for further assistance on the issue.

https://www.microsoft.com/education/en-au/contact/Pages/default.aspx



Let us know if you need any further assistance on Windows related issues and we will be glad to help.

 

Windows 10S to Windows 10 Education

Just to be safe, I would first recommend you upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, then perform the Easy Upgrade to Windows 10 Education.

How to Upgrade from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro or Roll Back

Step 2:

Perform the Easy Upgrade to Windows 10 Education:

• How
  to Perform an Easy Upgrade in Windows 10