Introducing Windows 10 Editions

[Corrine]

Windows 10 Home -- Consumer-focused desktop edition with a familiar and personal experience for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. It will include Cortana, Microsoft Edge web browser; Continuum tablet mode for touch-capable devices; Windows Hello face-recognition, iris and fingerprint login; and universal Windows apps like Photos, Maps, Mail, Calendar, Music and Video. (Note: Cortana will be available on Windows 10 at launch in select markets. Windows Hello requires a specialized, illuminated infrared camera for facial recognition or iris detection or a finger print reader which supports the Windows Biometric Framework. Apps and services may vary by market.) Additionally, Xbox One owners will be able to play their XBox One games from any Windows 10 PC in their home.

 

Windows 10 Mobile -- Designed for smaller, mobile, touch-centric devices like smartphones and small tablets. It includes the same universal Windows apps included in Windows 10 Home, as well as the new touch-optimized version of Office. Windows 10 Mobile will enable some new devices to take advantage of Continuum for phone, so people can use their phone like a PC when connected to a larger screen.

 

Windows 10 Pro -- Desktop edition for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s which includes the features of Windows 10 Home, has many extra features for small businesses. Windows 10 Pro will provide support for remote and mobile productivity scenarios and take advantage of cloud technologies. Windows 10 will also let customers take advantage of the new Windows Update for Business.

 

The full versions of Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 Pro will be a free upgrade for qualifying Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices that upgrade in the first year after launch. Once you upgrade, you have Windows 10 for free on that device.

 

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Windows 10 Enterprise -- Builds on Windows 10 Pro, adding advanced features for medium and large sized organizations and will be available to Volume Licensing customers.

 

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

 

Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise -- Designed for business customers on smartphones and small tablets and will be available to Volume Licensing customers. Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise will incorporate the latest security and innovation features as soon as they are available.

 

There will also be versions of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise for industry devices like ATMs, retail point of sale, handheld terminals and industrial robotics and Windows 10 IoT Core for small footprint, low cost devices like gateways.

 

Summary from: Introducing Windows 10 Editions

[Corrine]

Still not the complete story but more information was provided by Mary Jo Foley in Piecing together the Windows as a Service puzzle for Windows 10.

[zlim]

I passed on this "recommended" patch in Win 7 Pro, KB3022345 offered in May. Now I learned that if you install this and later do a sfc /scandisk you get a false error that your hard drive has irreparable corruption errors!

I checked to be sure it was NOT installed. 6 months down the line, I'll scan the hard drive and forget that this update is the reason.

 

So forcing all the important and recommended updates on my computer, is not something I want.

 

I also wonder how hardware updates will be handled? I do not want MS telling me I need hard ware updates. I tried their suggestion once (did it twice because I was sure I did something wrong) and it knocked me offline. My wired connection was dead.

[crp]

ugh, MSFT is pushing the late July date. Unless they have a secret version that they are testing with lots of users that are not in the official beta program, this is not good. The 20% that needs fixing up is important, especially since some of the fixing has to do with the user interface.

[zlim]

When was the last version of Windows that was introduced and functioned well? 8, 7, Vista, XP, ME ? I think all had glitches when they were released

[crp]

W7 qualifies for performing well upon release.

Difference is two fold: A: MSFT is not the 800 pound gorilla in computer OS anymore , so users do not have to follow

B: the uttter disaster of W8.

 

btw: W7 did get delayed a bit due to getting the 20% down to something more like 5%. Like W10, it was a followup to a bad release.

Come to think of it, W7 was really much like DOS5 .

[Capt.Crow]

Don't ask me now .XP pro was the last MS os that I had humming along for about five years. Only after it had been stripped down to the bare bones and third party bits and bobs inserted instead.

I've had two whole days with a big knife doing the same to W7. At least the only thing thats overheating is the coffee pot.

 

95 would run quite nicely on 16mb ram a 133mHz cpu and 4Gb hard disk.

98 needed a little bit more

2000 more

xp heaps more

Windows just keep heaping up so much now that one now needs a humungus amount of everything. And it still crawls after a while.

Just like one of those superbikes, if it falls over it needs a crane to get it back up and running

[Guest LilBambi]

Cross between Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 ... should be a good blend.

 

Sounds like we will still be able to opt out of the search stuff like on Windows 8.1 - oersonalized ads in browsers, and wherever you use your Microsoft account?

 

https://choice.microsoft.com/en-us/opt-out