Why not get W10 Education Edition?

[Spork829]

I just now found out that Windows Education Edition is a thing, and the keys are way cheaper than normal Windows. I expected it to be very cut-down, but after some searching, apparently it doesn't have Cortana (which I find a good thing) and has WAY MORE other features than other versions! Why would anyone ever buy normal W10? This must be too good to be true. What am I missing?

[slightlyjaded]

Just now, Spork829 said:

I just now found out that Windows Education Edition is a thing, and the keys are way cheaper than normal Windows. I expected it to be very cut-down, but after some searching, apparently it doesn't have Cortana (which I find a good thing) and has WAY MORE other features than other versions! Why would anyone ever buy normal W10? This must be too good to be true. What am I missing?

Most education editions require you to provide a valid student ID card for whatever institution you're part of. Apart from that there is no reason not to get a student edition....Although it is windows 10, and I'm forever having to fix problems with people who were unfortunate enough to have windows 10 preinstalled.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, slightlyjaded said:

Most education editions require you to provide a valid student ID card for whatever institution you're part of. Apart from that there is no reason not to get a student edition....Although it is windows 10, and I'm forever having to fix problems with people who were unfortunate enough to have windows 10 preinstalled.

It's free for me, I'm in college lol 

[Energycore]

Well, apparently my uni doesn't have the Windows education partnership so I'm stuck having to use Take Ownership to disable cortana

[corrado33]

Here's the compare list if you'd like to see.

 

http://wincom.blob.core.windows.net/documents/Win10CompareTable_FY17.pdf

 

 

EDIT: Just for the record, I think the education edition is really made for colleges, not necessarily for students. Many of the extra "features" are things like "managed updates" and things to allow students to logon over the net, etc. So basically IT stuff, not really features a user would use. 

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, slightlyjaded said:

Most education editions require you to provide a valid student ID card for whatever institution you're part of. Apart from that there is no reason not to get a student edition....Although it is windows 10, and I'm forever having to fix problems with people who were unfortunate enough to have windows 10 preinstalled.

 

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

It's free for me, I'm in college lol 

Yeah I'm in high school so I could probably do it. I wonder if I can get multiple Education Edition keys with the same ID though...

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

 

Yeah I'm in high school so I could probably do it. I wonder if I can get multiple Education Edition keys with the same ID though...

For me at least you get only one

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Here's the compare list if you'd like to see.

 

http://wincom.blob.core.windows.net/documents/Win10CompareTable_FY17.pdf

 

Yeah that's what inspired this post in the first place. Education Edition has every check EXCEPT Cortana! What's not to love?

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

For me at least you get only one

Well better than none

[corrado33]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

 

Yeah I'm in high school so I could probably do it. I wonder if I can get multiple Education Edition keys with the same ID though...

Doubtful, why would you want to? Just run Win 10 pro unactivated...

[Electronics Wizardy]

8 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

I just now found out that Windows Education Edition is a thing, and the keys are way cheaper than normal Windows. I expected it to be very cut-down, but after some searching, apparently it doesn't have Cortana (which I find a good thing) and has WAY MORE other features than other versions! Why would anyone ever buy normal W10? This must be too good to be true. What am I missing?

its enterprise but without ltsb

 

Why does it exist?

 

US GOV is probably the main reason

 

Microsoft gives big discounts to schools, the gov wants the cheapest price it is sold, so they make a version just for schools, so the gov can get the education price

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, corrado33 said:

Doubtful, why would you want to? Just run Win 10 pro unactivated...

How long do they let you do that for?

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

its enterprise but without ltsb

 

Why does it exist?

 

US GOV is probably the main reason

 

Microsoft gives big discounts to schools, the gov wants the cheapest price it is sold, so they make a version just for schools, so the gov can get the education price

But the thing is, I can have it  

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, corrado33 said:

Doubtful, why would you want to? Just run Win 10 pro unactivated...

Well unactivated Windows doesn't let me set a background image, more importantly it doesn't let me make the task bar disappear when I don't mouse over it.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Yeah that's what inspired this post in the first place. Education Edition has every check EXCEPT Cortana! What's not to love?

Actually it has much more than pro. You get extra goodies in group policy, and windows 2 go and extra security features.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

How long do they let you do that for?

as long as you want, you just get a watermark.

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

How long do they let you do that for?

I've seen computers run unactivated windows just fine since the inception of Windows 10, and up to now.

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Well unactivated Windows doesn't let me set a background image, more importantly it doesn't let me make the task bar disappear when I don't mouse over it.

You hide your taskbar? I'm sorry, we can't be friends.

 

 

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[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

as long as you want, you just get a watermark.

 

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

I've seen computers run unactivated windows just fine since the inception of Windows 10, and up to now.

Oh damn I thought they kicked you out after a few months. Well this is now sounding like the most appealing option considering it's entirely free...

[Energycore]

2 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

You hide your taskbar? I'm sorry, we can't be friends.

 

 

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Seriously, that has to be my favourite thing about Windows now. You don't have to look at the taskbar all the time.

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Seriously, that has to be my favourite thing about Windows now. You don't have to look at the taskbar all the time.

I mean I guess you get more screen space... I think I would constantly freak out and forget it's hidden though

[corrado33]

3 minutes ago, rrubberr said:

Go through the computer lab at school and snap a photo of all the license stickers on the computers. Windows for you AND your friends!

I used to try to do that when I was younger before I realized that windows keys are registered to the motherboard and would never work on another computer.

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, rrubberr said:

Fun fact, the MSDN one comes with 1,001 rearms.

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[Spork829]

1 minute ago, corrado33 said:

I used to try to do that when I was younger before I realized that windows keys are registered to the motherboard and would never work on another computer.

Fun fact, you can actually call MS support and swap it to a new motherboard extremely easily (as long as the old one is no longer in use with the same key).

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

I mean I guess you get more screen space... I think I would constantly freak out and forget it's hidden though

For me, it's like running your brower fullscreen, but you get to move the window around. And since I disabled all the animations, using the task bar is just as quick because it takes no time to pop up again when you move the mouse to the monitor edge.

 

Just now, Spork829 said:

Fun fact, you can actually call MS support and swap it to a new motherboard extremely easily (as long as the old one is no longer in use with the same key).

I've heard this doesn't work on OEM keys.