Windows 10: Windows 10 Home (& Pro) Commercial Use Licensing Question (because Microsoft don't seem to...

The problem is that I have Windows 10 Home on my laptop and Windows 10 Professional on my main PC.

Although the many threads on this subject say that you can use both for business use, the fact is that the license terms for BOTH clearly state that neither can be use for commercial use!


Here are two links, the first is to the Microsoft Licensing Agreement for OEM versions (All versions), the second is for Retail versions of Windows (All versions)


These were obtained using the Licensing Terms feature on Microsofts own website... (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/useterms)


https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/OEM/Windows/10/Useterms_OEM_Windows_10_English.htm


https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/Useterms_Retail_Windows_10_English.htm


What is important to note here is that the licensing terms are the same for both Home and Pro. There is only one license to download.


Under these terms, section 1 (Overview) b (Additional Terms) (v) states and I quote verbatim... "To the extent included with Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote are licensed for your personal, non-commercial use, unless you have commercial use rights under a separate agreement".

This says that Windows (under any of it guises) is only licensed for personal and not commercial use unless you hold an agreement to the contrary.

I have the same Terms & Conditions on both my Windows Home and Windows Professional installation.

So according to their own license terms, Windows 10 Pro is not licensed for commercial use, let alone Windows 10 home!

I called Microsoft and was cut off the first time after the call operator from Commercial Sales had no idea what I was talking about. When I got through the second time (and linked the operator to the documentation above) he had no real answer other than Windows 10 Pro has a feature set that is meant for business proposes and had no idea why the license terms would say that it was not possible to use it for commercial use.

So he told me to contact Microsoft Legal.

I thought I would try and get a definitive answer here, as what is generally accepted by both the community and by Microsoft operatives themselves, goes against the licensing terms implied by their software.

What I am after is 100% written proof that there are no restrictions on the use of Windows 10 Home or Pro in a commercial setting as right now the documentation says exactly the opposite.

Thanks in advance.

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