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Price of upgrading from Windows 10 Home to Pro

Anonymous
2021-05-27T16:54:02+00:00

I can see different pricing of upgrading from Windows 10 Home to Pro. What I understand is if you already have Windows 10 Home edition which came with the computer purchased and you upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, the cost is less, but the bad thing is that if the computer is lost or something happens to it, you cannot use the same license on another computer because the license is bound to the hardware.

But if you buy a Windows 10 Pro, its a bit expensive than upgrade but you can use it on another hardware, it is not bound to the hardware. Did I understand it right ? If not can someone explain better.

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  1. DaveM121 872.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-05-27T17:28:48+00:00

    Hi Paulokello1,

    I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this.

    Yes your understanding if the process is perfectly correct.

    If you purchase the Pro upgrade licence for approx. $99 by clicking 'Go to the Store' on the activation page in the Settings App, that Pro licence then inherits the status of the underlying Home licence.

    So if the Home licence is OEM (pre-installed) then the Pro licence inherits that and is not transferable, if the underlying licence is retail, then so is the Pro licence and that is transferable.

    if your Windows 10 is Home and pre-installed, while a full Pro licence is dearer than the upgrade licence, in the long run it is a better option than the Pro upgrade licence.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-27T19:08:46+00:00

    See DaveM121's reply. As he said, if windows came preinstalled on your computer, you have an OEM license and it's permanently tied to the computer.

    However let me add the following:

    Why do you want to upgrade to Professional? Do you use your computer as home rather than at work? Professional isn't better than Home . They are identical except that Professional has a few extra features that can be valuable to business users, but very seldom to home users. So there's probably very little, if any, advantage for you to run Professional rather than Home, and my guess that upgrading to Professional would just be a waste of money for you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-28T08:15:03+00:00

    This are company computers, the company was buying Home edition, but now we are going install Active Directory and Join this computers to AD

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-27T19:28:28+00:00

    Thanks, now I get the idea.

    The issue was that, this was a small company buying computers from vendors from retail sellers. So they purchased Microsoft 10 Home Edition but now the company is growing and need to install Microsoft Active directory and join this computer to active directory domain

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  5. DaveM121 872.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-05-27T19:33:51+00:00

    Hi Paulokello1, glad to help!

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