For most users who buy a new PC, they are most likely to get Win 10 Home Edition, which has the key functions of Win 10, including brand-new start menu, Edge browser, WindowsHello biometric login and virtual voice assistant Cortana.

Win 10 Home Edition will also include a game streaming function, allowing gamers to play XboxOne games directly on the PC. Of course, in order to improve the security of the system, home users have no right to choose the key security update of WindowsUpdate, and the system will install it by itself.

Win 10 Home Edition includes a "Continuum" function specially designed for tablets, which provides users with a simplified taskbar and start menu, and the application will also run in full screen mode. Users of Windows7 or Windows8. 1 Home Edition can upgrade to Win 10 Home Edition for free.

Second, Win 10 professional edition

If your PC is used for commercial purposes, Win 10 Professional Edition will bring functions beyond Win 10 Home Edition, such as adding a domain and AzureActiveDirectory for single sign-on cloud services.

At the same time, Win 10 Professional Edition will also bring users Hyper-V client (virtualization), BitLocker full disk encryption, enterprise mode IE browser, remote desktop, Windows commercial application store, enterprise data protection container and accept the updated functions specially launched for commercial users.

Users of Windows7 and 8. 1 Professional Edition can upgrade to Win 10 Professional Edition for free.

Iii. Win 10 Enterprise Edition

Win 10 enterprise edition contains all the commercial functions provided by the professional edition, and also provides a series of more powerful functions for large enterprises, including DirectAccess which can connect without VPN, AppLocker which supports whitelisting, BranchCache which can share downloads and updates with other PCs through peer-to-peer connection, and the start screen based on group policy control.

CredentialGuard and DeviceGuard can be used to protect Windows login credentials and restrict the applications that a specific PC can run.

Win 10' s free upgrade strategy is not applicable to Windows Enterprise Edition, and users can only obtain it through batch licensing.

Four. Win 10 education edition

The education version appeared after the launch of Win 10. It is a version specially designed for large academic institutions (such as universities) and has the security, management and connection functions of Win 10 Enterprise Edition.

Win 10 education edition has almost the same function as Win 10 enterprise edition, except that there is no LongTermServicingBranch update option. Users can directly upgrade from Win 10 home edition to Win 10 education edition.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Win 10 mobile phone version

If you use WindowsPhone or a tablet running Windows8. 1, you can upgrade to the mobile version of Win 10. 5-inch, 6-inch smartphones or 7-inch tablets are not very different, so they have the same user interface and the same common applications.

The mobile version of Win 10 contains the key functions of Win 10, including the Edge browser and the new touch version of Office, but there is no built-in IE browser. If your hardware conditions are sufficient, you will be able to plug your mobile phone or tablet directly into the display screen and get the Continuum user interface, which will bring you a larger start menu and the same user interface as the general application in PC.

Intransitive verb Win 10 Mobile Enterprise Edition

This version is aimed at large enterprise users and adopts a batch licensing model similar to the enterprise version, but Microsoft did not disclose the relevant details.

Seven. Win 10 internet of things edition

If you have a Raspberry Pi 2 or an Intel Galileo, you can brush in the free Win 10 version of the Internet of Things and run the general application. Microsoft also provides other industrial and mobile versions of Win 10, which are specially designed for sales terminals, ATMs or other embedded devices.

The industrial version of Win 10 only supports x86 architecture system, and the mobile version may support both x86 and ARM architecture processors, so it can run general applications.