Windows 10 Business Edition

Question

Hi, I just wanted to know what the difference, if any, are between Windows 10 Business and Windows 10 Pro?

I'm looking to deploy Windows 11 via Intune, but don't see Windows 10 Business as a support OS edition.

Thanks,

Brian

Answer 1

@ZhoumingDuan-MSFT and @Reza-Ameri – both of your answers are incorrect. There is indeed such an SKU as Windows Business. It is provided via the Microsoft 365 Business Premium license.

When a user with the Microsoft 365 Business Premium license uses his account to sign in to a computer running Windows Pro, the computer gets automatically upgraded from Windows Pro to Windows Business. Consequently, running "winver" or going to Settings > System > About will show the SKU as "Windows 10/11 Business", as shown in the screenshot from the OP here.

Windows Business is a special and not-well-documented SKU, but it is nonetheless a valid and existing SKU.

Answer 2

Hi

Thank you for the detailed explanation . When I go to "System" and check Windows specifications it says that my edition is Windows 10 Business. It's no mayor issue. Thanks.

Answer 3

There is no such version.

There are Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Enterprise but nothing called Windows 10 Business. You have more features in Enterprise version of Windows 10 compare to Pro.

Answer 4

@Brian Liu,Thanks for posting in Q&A.

From your description, I know that you want to know the difference between Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Business.

Based on my researching, I found that there is no version called Windows 10 Business, and we usually call it Windows 10 Enterprise.

Windows 10 Enterprise is designed to address the needs of large and midsize organizations by providing IT professionals. And Windows 10 Pro is built for business,it has many extra features to meet the diverse needs of small businesses.Both of them let customers take advantage of the new Windows Update for Business.

There are some differences between Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise

1.Windows 10 Pro are distributed from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM),Retail and Volume licensing while editions such as Enterprise and Education are only available through volume licensing channels

2.Windows 10 Enterprise can use the Windows Update for Business and have access to the Long Term Servicing Branch as a deployment option for their mission critical devices and environments while Windows 10 Pro can only use the Windows Update for Business

3.Windows 10 Enterprise support Windows Defender Credential Guard, Windows Defender Application Guard, Windows Defender Application Control ,Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) while Windows 10 Pro do not support

4.Windows 10 Enterprise support Windows Analytics Device Health while Windows 10 Pro do not support

5.Windows 10 Enterprise support Cloud Activations, Manage user experiences, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft User Environment Virtualization (UE-V) while Windows 10 Pro do not support.

https://studywarehouse.com/complete-comparison-editions-windows-10-business/

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7764-compare-windows-10-editions.html

None official, just for reference.

Hope above information is helpful.

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