Windows 10: Windows 10 Pro vs Education? Just bought Pro for a $100 yesterday..

Coming from using a Mac, I’m hearing education is actually better? I use lots of excel and now do some coding for my classes as well. I’m also a student, so I’m wondering if I probably already have or get education for free and no point in even getting Windows 10 Pro.

Any advice would be appreciated!

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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 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.

 

Windows 10 v2004 - Media Creation for Pro Education

I've downloaded the windows 10 media creation to attempt a fresh install on my Windows 10 Pro Education computer.

The Pro Education option is not available, and when typing in the product code, it says my key is not valid for the windows 10 installations available.

When I choose No Product Key to access the version selection page, Education and Pro are listed, but no Education Pro.

Was this missed, or is Pro Education no longer supported?