If you've ever bought a computer, chances are it came with the home version of Windows, and if it was any time recently, it would be Windows 10 home. But you might know that there are other versions of Windows. There's Windows 10 Pro when it's 10 education enterprise. And obviously, not many people are going to need enterprise or education for their personal computers. Obviously, you might be wondering if it's worth it to get Windows 10 pro and what the differences are and who would want that.
So that's exactly what we're gonna go over in this video. And, believe it or not, there aren't actually Aton of differences between Windows 10 pro and home. But the difference is that is there might be significant for some of you, so it's still worth noting all that there are. So first of all, let's talk about Windows 10 home. This edition costs $119. Now. I would actually say that Windows 10 home has 99% if not 100% of the features that any normal person would need, especially if they're not professionally.
There's nothing you would not be able to do with Windows 10 home. It's not like the previous versions where they had in a Windows Home Premium with Vista and Ultimate version, which had extra features. There are no features that are missing from here that you would really need unless you were a professional of some kind, which will get to the only real limit when it comes to Windows 10. Home is the amount of ram you can use, which is a whopping 128 gigabytes, which is less than what you get on pro, but way more than probably anyone would ever need.
So I don't even know any professional users, even in like a server that would need 128 gigabytes. So that's not even a real limitation. The other thing is that it doesn't have a bit locker where Windows 10 Pro does, and that's really the Onley feature I would consider may be something that a normal person would use now. Bit locker, if you're not aware, is a feature that allows you to encrypt your entire hard drive, which is great for laptops, which means that you have to type in a password before you even boot up the computer. So even If someone takes out the horror drive, they still can't access your data. However, that being said, ah, a lot of portable devices do actually have this feature enabled, even if it is Windows 10 home.
So you might not miss it anyway. Now, since Windows 10 Home doesn't really have anything that Windows 10 pro doesn't have. So from now on, we're just gonna basically talk about the features that pro has that home doesn't. It wouldn't really make sense to talk about this stuff. That home doesn't have just toe mention it again later. So what is the deal with Windows 10 Pro, then? Well, first of all, we can mention the price. It's $199 which $80 more than Windows home and 1 19 so it doesn't have as many features to justify it. And really, only you can decide that. The first thing we can mention is the Ram now I mentioned at home.
It's 128 gigabytes, which is already more than you would need, and on pro and up. It's two terabytes. I don't know anyone who would ever need to terabytes of Ram. I don't even think you could fit that into any motherboard, even if you wanted to. As for the rial other features, the 1st 1 we could talk about is so-called hyper V virtualization. And this basically just allows native support for running virtual computers on Windows. So you can actually do this with third-party software like VM ware or virtual box. But with this, you can do it right through Windows, and it basically just lets you run multiple instances of either Windows or another operating system and have it isolated from the regular operating system.
Whether this is for testing, developing, or maybe even some kind of security where you want to test some software, you're not really sure if it's safe. The next future has to do with remote desktop now all versions of Windows Support remote desktop in the sense that you can control other devices with it. However, Onley Pro and other additions above that can be controlled through a remote desktop, so you could use a Windows Home PC to control your work PC, for example, if it's pro, but you can't do it the other way around. But again, there is third party software that will allow you to do this even if you don't have Windows 10 pro. So it's not a huge deal.
But where would be a big deal? Maybe, is if you're in a company and you just want native support, you want everything to just work. It's gonna work a lot better than having installed third party software and worrying about all that on all your computers. Now the next future is probably something that the average person would be able to use, and that is that the Windows 10 Pro version allows you to defer updates. So Windows 10 home basically doesn't allow you to delay updates, maybe for a few hours. But Windows 10 Pro allows you to do it for up to a month or more, especially the enterprise, which allows you to delay it indefinitely. Now that being said, I would never actually suggest anyone disabled Windows updates altogether.
You always want to keep windows up the date, especially for security reasons. But if you are a professional who uses Windows, then it could be helpful to delay this. In case you are worried about the update breaking something that is work critical and this could be especially so for the major updates They do twice a year, like the Fall Creators Update, which did break a lot of stuff until maybe a couple weeks later so it might be worth it. Delay it until they have all the kinks worked that now the rest of the few features are probably not going to be useful to almost anyone except in a business environment.
But we still talk about the 1st 1 is domain join, which means that you can use the Windows 10 Pro version to connect to a domain like it works, which basically just allows your computer to be controlled by, like, an admin or something and absorb all those policies and just connect with the other computers in that network? If you're not doing this for work, unless you set it up for your home or something, this isn't going to be very useful to you kind of related to that. Windows 10 Pro does have the group Policy Editor, which allows admin is to mass control configurations on many different computers in a network. But it also does have the ability to control local policy. So that means that with the group policy editor.
You can actually change a lot of features that normally you wouldn't be able to do even if you're not in a work network or something. So actually, this can be a neat future. If you tend to be a power user who really likes to customize hidden features that no one really cares about, you can use the group policy editor to do that. Another interesting feature with the pro version is it has a future called Assigned Access, which basically allows you to restrict the computer or a single user from being able to use anything except one app. So this could be a good example.
If it's a kiosk or something in a mall, and you only want one app running on it, you don't want people to access the start menu or something. Well, it's running. Then that would be a good example of that. Or maybe if it's a sign-in desk at your work, then obviously again you don't want people to be running other programs. You just want them to run the sign-in software. The next future has to do with Internet Explorer. I bet some of you have not used that year, especially with EJ coming out and Windows 10. But it has what is called Internet Explorer enterprise mode, which basically just is a compatibility mode for, like ancient corporate networks that still use Web APS that rely on, like Internet Explorer seven and eight, which is, I mean, truly ancient.
But some of them just refused update, And if you are running a new version of Windows, it probably doesn't support that crap anymore. So they had to implement this enterprise mood, which just allows you to run this old junkie APS. They just needed to do that. And then, finally, with the pro version, you're gonna get the ability to use what is called Windows Store for business, which kind of allows you to buy an Ah, a lot of different app licenses. Like if you have 10 business computers or something, you can buy an app and then distributed easily to all those computers through this Windows App store for business, which would be different than the personal App store, which is assuming that you're only gonna put it on the one computer.
So it's just a little bit more convenient for business cases. So those were really the only big differences between whom and pro. And I personally do like to use pro just cause it does have a couple of those features. I do like like the ability to defer updates for more than like a day if I want to. Also, that remote desktop might not need that often, but it's still nice to have. And then you also have a bit locker, which I do like and then that group policy editor, which does come in handy sometimes when you want to change like a very specific feature that normally someone wouldn't even know about, though we're not quite done yet because interestingly, Microsoft announced another edition of Windows called Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, which is supposed to be an even higher-end version of Windows 10 Pro.
The idea of this one is supposed that it would allow you to use server-grade hardware like Super High-end hardware. For example, if you want to run a motherboard that has more than one CPU, this will support up to four CP use and up to six terabytes of Ram. I mean, I don't know again, who would need that but the ability is there. The other difference is that the pro for workstation version will support what's called or E. Fs or resilient file system, which is different than NT FS, which is just a probably superior file system that might replace NT fs at some point. And if you don't know what any of that means, then it wouldn't matter to you anyway.
But it has been a little bit controversial because this feature was actually in Windows 10 Pro, and they removed it just so they could add it into this more expensive new operating system version. Microsoft hasn't really talked about many of the other main differences between this pro for workstation and pro version, and I don't even think it's out yet. They just kind of mentioned they were making it, and that was it. So maybe I will make another video if there are enough differences, but I'd probably don't even see myself getting it unless there's some killer new feature that includes.
Besides that, though, I guess we can quickly just kind of mention the other versions of windows besides Home pro. Just out of curiosity, for example, there is Windows 10 enterprise, which is mainly designed to be deployed on, like many, many computers. And that just allows much easier use of volume, licensing and direct control from one central admin or something like that. Then the education version is very similar to enterprise except focused on like institutions of education.
So the university's school. And that just focuses again on academic volume licensing instead of corporate, though another interesting one you may not have heard of is Windows I o T core. Now, this is actually meant to be for, like, the Internet of things devices. It's a very basic, basic version of Windows 10 that will possibly be run on things like raspberry PiS.
You can actually do that and just very, very low power devices, basically just to be able to run an operating system. And then there is also the newer Windows 10 s, which is really stupid. I've talked about this in another video. It's basically like a much more locked-down version of Windows 10. They literally on Lee lets you run Windows Store APS, so if you ever see Windows 10 s, just don't even bother getting that at all.
So I guess that's pretty much it. You should now hopefully know which you would want Windows 10 pro or home. And then we also at least mentioned the names of the other additions. So you at least know that they're there. I'd be interested to know what you guys think. Which version do you use? We can talk about that down in the comments.
