Windows 10 Enterprise vs Education

[Davida1992]

I cannot really find much about this online. We are starting our Windows 10 project, at the moment we use Windows 7 Enterprise.

 

For education, is there really any reason to use Education? Or can we stick with Win 10 Enterprise?

 

From what I can see, both versions seem to be exactly the same?

 

Thanks.

[Michael]

They are exactly the same

[Davida1992]

Why do Microsoft do this to us haha

[Michael]

As previously discussed on Edugeek, later down the line, they may decide to release Apps specific for the Education version, but this is yet to materialise.

[Arthur]

They are exactly the same

Not quite.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/education/windows/configure-windows-for-education

 

[Michael]

There you go, I stand correct. 4 versions in and slowly Microsoft are making small changes.

[LemonEntry]

So the big change is that there is one place to make Windows 10 "Education Ready" whereas with Enterprise you have to set them yourself?

 

I may be being pessimistic, but I think I'd prefer to set them myself anyway. "SetEduPolicies" could be changed at any time to modify telemetry and diagnostics, for example, whereas setting them specifically in a GPO is guaranteed to go unmolested (Or it will break Enterprise as well).