Windows 10 Versions announced
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There are 7 new versions of Windows. Hooray! But why couldn't they just round it out with another three versions to have 10 versions of 10?
Imagine the marketing they could have had! Windows it's 10/10.
Now they are languishing at 7/10.Anyway, here is the educational link:
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/13/introducing-windows-10-editions/Windows 10 Home is the consumer-focused desktop edition. It offers a familiar and personal experience for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. Windows 10 Home will help people do great things, both big and small. With it, they will be more productive and have more fun thanks to a long list of new innovations: Cortana, the world’s most personal digital assistant; the new Microsoft Edge web browser; Continuum tablet mode for touch-capable devices; Windows Hello face-recognition, iris and fingerprint login; and right out of the box, a broad range of universal Windows apps like Photos, Maps, Mail, Calendar, Music and Video*.
We are also bringing the Xbox gaming experience to Windows 10, giving games and gamers access to the Xbox Live gaming community, enabling the capture and share of gameplay and giving Xbox One owners the ability to play their Xbox One games from any Windows 10 PC in their home.
Windows 10 Mobile is designed to deliver the best user experience on smaller, mobile, touch-centric devices like smartphones and small tablets. It boasts the same, new universal Windows apps that are included in Windows 10 Home, as well as the new touch-optimized version of Office. Windows 10 Mobile offers great productivity, security and management capabilities for customers who use their personal devices at work. In addition, 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 is a desktop edition for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. Building upon both the familiar and innovative features of Windows 10 Home, it has many extra features to meet the diverse needs of small businesses. Windows 10 Pro helps to effectively and efficiently manage their devices and apps, protect their sensitive business data, support remote and mobile productivity scenarios and take advantage of cloud technologies. Windows 10 Pro devices are a great choice for organizations supporting Choose Your Own Device (CYOD) programs and prosumer customers. Windows 10 Pro also lets customers take advantage of the new Windows Update for Business, which will reduce management costs, provide controls over update deployment, offer quicker access to security updates and provide access to the latest innovation from Microsoft on an ongoing basis.
Windows 10 Enterprise builds on Windows 10 Pro, adding advanced features designed to meet the demands of medium and large sized organizations. It provides advanced capabilities to help protect against the ever-growing range of modern security threats targeted at devices, identities, applications and sensitive company information. Windows 10 Enterprise also supports the broadest range of options for operating system deployment and comprehensive device and app management. It will be available to our Volume Licensing customers, so they can take advantage of the latest innovation and security updates on an ongoing basis. At the same time, they will be able to choose the pace at which they adopt new technology, including the option to use the new Windows Update for Business. With Windows 10, Enterprise customers will also have access to the Long Term Servicing Branch as a deployment option for their mission critical devices and environments. And as with prior versions of Windows, Active Software Assurance customers in Volume Licensing can upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise as part of their existing Software Assurance benefits.
Windows 10 Education builds on Windows 10 Enterprise, and is designed to meet the needs of schools – staff, administrators, teachers and students. This edition will be available through academic Volume Licensing, and there will 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 is designed to deliver the best customer experience to business customers on smartphones and small tablets. It will be available to our Volume Licensing customers. It offers the great productivity, security and mobile device management capabilities that Windows 10 Mobile provides, and adds flexible ways for businesses to manage updates. In addition, Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise will incorporate the latest security and innovation features as soon as they are available.
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At the windows 10 Spice-world session, there was a huge amount of heckling, I was worried people were going to start throwing shoes at the MS guy.
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It's a bit confusing as yes, they are seven versions, but two of them are mobile / phone versions, so that brings the total of traditional ones down to just five.
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And then one is an educational version which might just be a licensing thing.
And then there is a seventh that wasn't on the list, who knows what it might be?
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Wonder if windows 10 mobile enterprise will actually cost?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Wonder if windows 10 mobile enterprise will actually cost?
Almost guaranteed.
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I've never understood the need for different versions of the desktop OS (Home, Pro & Enterprise). Why not have one version and then charge for the extra features, or put up the prices of Windows Server CALs?
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I've never understood the need for different versions of the desktop OS (Home, Pro & Enterprise). Why not have one version and then charge for the extra features, or put up the prices of Windows Server CALs?
Would you then have different layers of CALs? What about things like update options?
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I wonder if DirectAccess will be limited to the Enterprise version or if they are going to trickle it down to the Pro version this time around.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Wonder if windows 10 mobile enterprise will actually cost?
Almost guaranteed.
Seems unlikely many will buy. even more so since most will likely be BYOD. and no one else pays for a phone OS.
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@coliver said:
I wonder if DirectAccess will be limited to the Enterprise version or if they are going to trickle it down to the Pro version this time around.
I'm sure it will stay in enterprise.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@coliver said:
I wonder if DirectAccess will be limited to the Enterprise version or if they are going to trickle it down to the Pro version this time around.
I'm sure it will stay in enterprise.
I'm thinking that as well. Which is unfortunate.
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@coliver said:
I wonder if DirectAccess will be limited to the Enterprise version or if they are going to trickle it down to the Pro version this time around.
Microsoft really does not do trickle down. The versions are by features used by different segments. You would not expect AD to trickle down to Home.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Wonder if windows 10 mobile enterprise will actually cost?
Almost guaranteed.
Seems unlikely many will buy. even more so since most will likely be BYOD. and no one else pays for a phone OS.
Exactly. The name really gives it away.
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@scottalanmiller said:
And then one is an educational version which might just be a licensing thing.
And then there is a seventh that wasn't on the list, who knows what it might be?
You missed a paragraph
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.
(thanks for the edit of the OP)
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@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller said:
And then one is an educational version which might just be a licensing thing.
And then there is a seventh that wasn't on the list, who knows what it might be?
You missed a paragraph
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.
(thanks for the edit of the OP)
Gotcha
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And as with prior versions of Windows, Active Software Assurance customers in Volume Licensing can upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise as part of their existing Software Assurance benefits.
I wonder if this means they are going back to the Pre Windows 8.1 SA changes where the split Enterprise licensing away from Software Assurance?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Wonder if windows 10 mobile enterprise will actually cost?
Almost guaranteed.
Seems unlikely many will buy. even more so since most will likely be BYOD. and no one else pays for a phone OS.
MS will definitely charge for the Enterprise version of mobile, why else have a specific version for this? Granted it might be say $25/device but I'm sure it won't be free.
Though it's really hard to say what it will cost considering Windows on devices with screens smaller than (was it 7.9"?) 7.9 inch displays. -
My guess is that $25 is high, but who knows. I would guess more like $10.
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@scottalanmiller said:
My guess is that $25 is high, but who knows. I would guess more like $10.
You're probably right - either that or it will be part of a MDM solution.
