Windows 10 Education better (more feature-rich) than Enterprise? Confusion.

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  1. PolidelticusFire

    PolidelticusFire MDL Senior Member

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    #1 PolidelticusFire, Jun 16, 2020
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    Was looking at the supported upgrade paths for Windows 10 page on Microsoft's site and noticed Education is considered an Upgrade from Enterprise.

    I thought Enterprise was the most complete SKU (equivalent to past's Ultimate SKUs)... But apparently that's not the case?


    - I have Digital Licenses (HWID) for both SKUs. Trying to decide which one to use.
     
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    Education isn't more feature rich than Enterprise but it does have some annoyances mitigated OOB that can easily be applied to Enterprise as well. Someone will likely come along and offer up specifics that I honestly can't be bothered to track down, but as someone who has regularly used and experimented with both SKU's I can say that functionally, you won't really notice any difference between the two day to day.
     
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    #3 Windows_Addict, Jun 17, 2020
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    Education is based on Enterprise but it comes with some settings which are applied keeping in mind the deployment in universities and educational institutions. Many things (e.g. spotlight) are disabled in Education which can't be enabled. Better use Enterprise and apply the tweaks you want with settings and group policy.
     
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    Just to make sure, entreprise is LTSC, so that Education is a restricted feature set from LTSC, meaning none have the metro non-sense and the use as guinea pig update scheduling, right? Because, for my past reading on microsoft web-sites, it is not clear, or I get easily confused (please let me know, anyway).
     
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    Wrong, there is both a normal Enterprise SKU (Enterprise/EnterpriseN with semi-annual upgrades) and, as a special SKU, the LTSC Enterprise (EnterpriseS/EnterpriseSN). Thus, while LTSC is always Enterprise, Enterprise isn't always LTSC.