See which features come with each Windows 10 Edition

Windows 10 Core Experiences

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Features

Home¹

Pro¹

Familiar and better than ever

Windows 10 is the Windows you already know plus great improvements you’ll love having

Customizable Start Menu

Windows Defender & Windows firewall

Fast start up with Hiberboot and InstantGo²

TPM support³

Battery Saver

Windows Update

Cortana⁴

Your own personal assistant to help you get things done

Talk or type naturally

Personal and proactive suggestions

Reminders

Search web, device, and cloud

“Hey Cortana” hands-free activation

Windows Hello⁵

A truly personal and secure experience where your device recognizes you

Native fingerprint recognition

Native facial and iris recognition

Enterprise level security

Multi-doing

The best experience for doing what you do

Virtual desktops

Snap assist (up to 4 apps on one screen)

Snap apps across screens on different monitors

Cloud storage

Access to your files and photos on the cloud from any device

Easy access to your 15GB free OneDrive cloud storage

Microsoft Edge

A better web experience for sharing, reading, discovery, and getting things done online

Reading view

Built-in ink support

Cortana integration⁴

Apps⁷

Great built-in apps and access to a huge catalog of apps on the Windows Store

Maps

Photos

Mail & Calendar

Music

Movies & TV

Windows Store

Gaming⁸

Better PC gaming than ever before

Xbox app

Xbox controller support (wired)

DirectX 12 graphic support

Game streaming (Xbox One to PC)

Game DVR

Windows 10 Business Experiences

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Features

Home¹

Pro¹

Existing Fundamentals

Existing differentiated management and security features

Device Encryption⁹

Domain Join

Group Policy Management

BitLocker³

Enterprise Mode IE (EMIE)

Assigned Access 8.1

Remote Desktop

Client Hyper-V

Direct Access

Management and Deployment

Enhanced management features to empower device and app management and deployment

Side-loading of line of business apps

Mobile device management

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Azure AD Join Ability to join Azure Active Directory, with single sign-on to cloud-hosted apps¹⁰

Business Store for Windows 10¹¹

Security

Deliver the security, performance, updates, and compatibility to help manage today’s devices and infrastructure.

Microsoft Passport

Enterprise Data Protection¹¹

Delivering Windows as a service

Stay up to date with Windows

Windows Update

Windows Update for Business

Current Branch for Business

¹ “N” and “KN” editions of Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro are also available and include the same functionality as the standard editions, except that they do not include certain media related technologies (Windows Media Player,