[Solved] Win11 Professional vs. Enterprise...

Discussion in 'Windows 11' started by geneticplasma, Oct 24, 2022.

  1. geneticplasma

    geneticplasma MDL Senior Member

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    Hello,

    ...is there any advantage/disadvantage for private useage?

    I have the possibility to get both and have to deceide now. Normaly I would say, taking the better one (Enterprise), is the better choice :)

    Do you agree with that?
     
  2. kaljukass

    kaljukass MDL Guru

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    The short answer is no. But you should take this one, with what your heart is satisfied with....., or what is satisfied your wife. Of course, if You have wife.
     
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  3. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    You can run any of them and switch between them to see what is different.

    Enterprise would be my choice, it gives you most control out of the box.
     
  4. geneticplasma

    geneticplasma MDL Senior Member

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    ...I don't have a wife ;)

    I don't want to switch. I will decide for one and use only this one.

    If I check google it tell me, that Enterprise has this add. features:

    • App-Locker
    • ReFS-Filesystem
    • Persistent Memory
    • SMB Direct
    • Group policy options

    At the moment I don't plan to use any of them.

    The most importent thing to me would be that the performance. At the moment I have some doubts that Enterprise will be a bit more sluggish because of the more security features?
     
  5. sizen

    sizen MDL Junior Member

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    Even if that were the case, I would choose Enterprise for its security robustness.
     
  6. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    There is none to nothing difference in performance between any of them, but you already seem to have your preference, install it and when you need enterprise it's just one command line away.
     
  7. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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    I prefer Enterprise for its Telemetry level 0, which Pro doesn't support.
     
  8. PolidelticusFire

    PolidelticusFire MDL Addicted

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    Enterprise packs every possible feature... Pro and its variants are cut-down versions of Enterprise. They all derive from Ent.
    To sum it up... Enterprise is the most complete edition. Even more complete than Education.

    On top of that you get 36 months of support from MSFT.
     
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  9. ch100

    ch100 MDL Addicted

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    Internally all business versions seem to be Professional while enabling more or less features according to the license.
     
  10. PolidelticusFire

    PolidelticusFire MDL Addicted

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    Hmm. Makes more sense.
     
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  11. scaramonga

    scaramonga MDL Senior Member

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    Neither. It's Windows 11.
     
  12. geneticplasma

    geneticplasma MDL Senior Member

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    I think I will go with the Enterprise version.
     
  13. Super Spartan

    Super Spartan MDL Expert

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    I use Windows 11 Education and will not touch anything else after having used it. The main advantage is some of the Group Policy editor rules do nothing on Pro such as disabling Telemetry (not as a tweak, but as a setting) and it has many other things disabled by default such as the installation of apps from the MS Store without your consent, Cortana, and many more.
     
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  14. geneticplasma

    geneticplasma MDL Senior Member

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    Could you explain more of the "many other things", Enterprise/Education provide?
     
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  16. vladnil

    vladnil MDL Senior Member

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    People were shown that the Windows 11 Enterprise OS Build /23003 version remained the same idiotic with a lot of s**t similar to Teams
    All these meaningless functions will not be used by anyone! :mad:
     
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  17. maddogster

    maddogster MDL Senior Member

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    i guess like google and facebook/amazon and apple they want the whole ecosystem to remain with each :) over time will know who uses what and rest gets deprecated/removed/discontinued like has been done since caveman days :)
     
  18. gibberishman3

    gibberishman3 MDL Novice

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    I need a clean install for a new PC and would like to, as I did with Windows 10, disable all the telemetry, ads, OneDrive, etc. Is there a preferred way to obtain the 22H2 ISO and configure the installer? I tried the MediaCreationTool.bat, but it does not support 22H2 at this point.

    Also, do I need a product key? Or will it install and then allow activation later?

    Thanks for any help.