How long will a windows 10 education edition license last?

[tlink]

I googled a little bit but i can't really find an answer. the education edition of windows 10 was free for me but i just use it for home use (is this even allowed in the contract?), i know they used to give away windows 7 etc at huge discounts for students so you get bound to their platform and ecosystem. but with windows 10 rolling upgrades that doesn't make sense since i don't get any ads or anything annoying since its essentially enterprise edition. how do they make money on people like me if this will be their last OS? (they said it was their last os right?) that makes me wonder how long my license will last, is there a limit on those?

[CreepyPro]

5 minutes ago, tlink said:

I googled a little bit but i can't really find an answer. the education edition of windows 10 was free for me but i just use it for home use (is this even allowed in the contract?), i know they used to give away windows 7 etc at huge discounts for students so you get bound to their platform and ecosystem. but with windows 10 rolling upgrades that doesn't make sense since i don't get any ads or anything annoying since its essentially enterprise edition. how do they make money on people like me if this will be their last OS? (they said it was their last os right?) that makes me wonder how long my license will last, is there a limit on those?

 

I got mine 2 years ago and is still working.

[Princess Luna]

As long as you're a student

[NoobCase]

Got a couple of windows 7 licenses like that which I received 7 years ago. Still working and I'm long done with that education.

 

Think MS just likes the indoctrination. You get free OS. You use it and it becomes your preferred OS hence you will influence others to use that OS.

a ripple effect that cost them nothing and could net them more 

[tlink]

11 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

As long as you're a student

how do they check? i mean my mother is a student too and she's in her 60's lol.

[Princess Luna]

Just now, tlink said:

how do they check? i mean my mother is a student too and she's in her 60's lol.

Most of Microsoft students licenses are bundle to your agreement with the college/school, when you graduate the institution tells Microsoft and they lock the license. Now this is what should happen in theory, not always what actually happens in real life as Microsoft might just "shrug" especially if its an outdated software and leave you be.

[tlink]

7 minutes ago, NoobCase said:

Got a couple of windows 7 licenses like that which I received 7 years ago. Still working and I'm long done with that education.

 

Think MS just likes the indoctrination. You get free OS. You use it and it becomes your preferred OS hence you will influence others to use that OS.

a ripple effect that cost them nothing and could net them more 

hmm could very well be that yes, before i could imagine it just being bound to their brand and interface but maybe that's it yea. but at some point education edition should outpace home and pro edition then because everybody is a student at some point.

[NoobCase]

Just now, tlink said:

hmm could very well be that yes, before i could imagine it just being bound to their brand and interface but maybe that's it yea. but at some point education edition should outpace home and pro edition then because everybody is a student at some point.

Oh... I got it mixed yup. I got 3 windows 7 pro licenses for free through my education. Not the student version

[tlink]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Most of Microsoft students licenses are bundle to your agreement with the college/school, when you graduate the institution tells Microsoft and they lock the license. Now this is what should happen in theory, not always what actually happens in real life as Microsoft might just "shrug" especially if its an outdated software and leave you be.

lol schools are way to underfunded to deal with that shit. over here we don't even acquire the license trough school but trough a website where you can select your school from a drop down menu from literally every school in the country. im pretty sad my education edition won't last forever since its the best version next to enterprise edition of course but i don't think i can buy enterprise edition as an individual, right?

[NoobCase]

Btw the meta data MS collects on you with win 10 is your price. Nothing in life is free 

[tlink]

1 minute ago, NoobCase said:

Btw the meta data MS collects on you with win 10 is your price. Nothing in life is free 

yea i know, but with education edition you can disable all that shit because its basically enterprise edition. if they did that in enterprise edition their high end clients would drop them because good luck trying to sell an operating system that does industrial espionage. i also monitor my data closely. i plan to run it from a VM eventually so i get even easier control.

[Princess Luna]

Just now, tlink said:

i don't think i can buy enterprise edition as an individual, right?

Not "legally" since it is target exclusively to big port companies, but out of experience you really can just go with Windows 10 Pro and personalize it to be/feel the way you want it to be like.

 

My Windows 10 Pro for instance I made it act like Win 7:

 

Spoiler

 

[tlink]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Not "legally" since it is target exclusively to big port companies, but out of experience you really can just go with Windows 10 Pro and personalize it to be/feel the way you want it to be like.

 

My Windows 10 Pro for instance I made it act like Win 7:

 

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i would miss a lot of features, it would essentially be a downgrade. the only thing i don't have with education edition is cortana but fuck her.

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

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, tlink said:

i would miss a lot of features, it would essentially be a downgrade. the only thing i don't have with education edition is cortana but fuck her.

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

How weird, is that chart actually up-to-date? My Win10 has all the features that are present there as far as I am concerned:

 

Spoiler

 

[tlink]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

How weird, is that chart actually up-to-date? My Win10 has all the features that are present there as far as I am concerned:

 

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huh thats really weird, it should be up to date but maybe its not.. maybe you can't launch the programs? what an odd situation. you get the link for comparing here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/default.aspx

[grimreeper132]

23 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Most of Microsoft students licenses are bundle to your agreement with the college/school, when you graduate the institution tells Microsoft and they lock the license. Now this is what should happen in theory, not always what actually happens in real life as Microsoft might just "shrug" especially if its an outdated software and leave you be.

aye or sometimes the institution "forgets"/forgets to tell microsoft meaning your stuck with it for ever and ever, which is such a shame

[tlink]

11 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

aye or sometimes the institution "forgets"/forgets to tell microsoft meaning your stuck with it for ever and ever, which is such a shame

such a shameeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[grimreeper132]

14 minutes ago, tlink said:

such a shameeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I know, I mean it's a a real shame