Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
by vel0city on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:26AM
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Pro is sold to individuals and you can easily get a laptop with a Pro license from an OEM.
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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
by dividedbyzero on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:27PM
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Seems like there's also Pro for Workstations. Also, full disk encryption seems to only be available in Pro?
Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
by naikrovek on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:54PM
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Yes. Well, BitLocker is in Pro, Pro for Workstations and Enterprise. Same for Hyper-V, if that matters to you; not available in Home.
Home edition is for non-commercial use. I don't know if that's in the EULA or not, but that's the use case that Home is meant for.
Pro and higher are for work use cases, and features add on as you go up the line. Pro for Workstations and Enterprise support slightly different feature sets, IIRC. Creating new ReFS filesystems is only available on Pro for Workstations, for example.
Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
by vel0city on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:24PM
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The other benefits of Pro for Workstations is a higher RAM limit (2TB vs 6TB) and socket count (2 CPU sockets vs 4 CPU sockets), NVDIMM-N support, and SMB Direct. Not normally features that would be missed on a normal PC.