if you've ever bought a computer chances
are it came with the home version of
Windows and if it was anytime recently
it would be Windows 10 home but you
might know that there are other versions
of Windows there's Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 education enterprise and
obviously not many people are gonna 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 going to go over in
this video and believe it or not there
aren't actually a ton of differences
between Windows 10 Pro and home but the
difference is that are 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
percent if not a hundred percent of the
features that any normal person would
need especially if they're not a
professional there's nothing you would
not be able to do with Windows 10 home
it's not like the previous versions
where they had you know Windows Home
Premium with Vista and the ultimate
version which had extra features there's
no features that are missing from here
that you would really need unless you
were a professional of some kind which
we'll 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 then
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 BitLocker where Windows 10
Pro does and that's really the only
feature I would consider maybe something
that a normal person would use now
BitLocker 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 hard drive they still
can't access your data however that
being said 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
the stuff that home doesn't have just to
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 is $80 more than Windows Home
at 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
on home it's 128 gigabytes which is
already more than you would need and on
Pro and up it's 2 terabytes I don't know
anyone who would ever need 2 terabytes
of RAM I don't even think you could fit
that into any motherboard even if you
want it to as for the real other
features the first one 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 VMware or VirtualBox 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 feature 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 only pro and other
editions 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
in a company and you just want native
support you want everything to just work
it's gonna work a lot better than have
an install third-party software and
worrying about all that on all your
computers now the next feature 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 disable Windows
updates altogether you always want to
keep Windows up-to-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 to
delay it until they have all the kinks
work 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 them the first one is domain join
which means that you can use the Windows
10 Pro version to connect to a domain
like at work 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 admins to mask 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 feature 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 feature
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 feature has to do with Internet
Explorer I bet some of you have not used
that in years especially with edge
coming out in 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
apps that rely on like Internet Explorer
7 and 8 which is I mean truly ancient
but some of them just refused to 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 mode which just allows
you to run these old junky apps 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 a lot of different app
licenses like if you have I don't know
10 business computers or something you
can buy an app and then distribute it
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 going to put it on the
one computer so it's just a little bit
more convenient for business cases so
those are really the only big
differences between home and pro and I
personally do like to use pro just
because 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 it that often but it's
still nice to have and then you also
have BitLocker 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
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 a even higher-end version
of Windows 10 Pro the idea of this one
is supposedly 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 4
CPUs and up to 6 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 is
called or EFS or resilient file system
which is different than NTFS which is
just a probably superior file system
that might replace NTFS 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 in
to this more expensive new operating
system version Microsoft hasn't really
talked about many of the other main
differences between this Pro 4
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's enough differences but
I 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's 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
universities 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 IOT core now this is
actually meant to be for like Internet
of Things devices it's a very basic
basic version of Windows 10
that will possibly be run on things like
raspberry pies 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 10s 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 only lets you run Windows
Store apps so if you ever see Windows
10s 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 mention the names
of the other editions 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
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