These default settings disable tips, tricks and suggestions & Microsoft Store suggestions. Windows 10 Education is effectively a variant of Windows 10 Enterprise that provides education-specific default settings. Windows 10 Education builds on Windows 10 Enterprise and provides the enterprise-grade manageability and security desired by many schools. This is actually the highest and most feature rich edition of Windows as it builds on the Windows Enterprise Edition and you can read the full details here: However, the real key is not so much the version of Windows (7, 8.1 or 10) but the edition of Windows – in this instance, from the common consumer Windows 10/11 Home Edition and the free upgrade pathway to Windows 10/11 Education Edition provided via the Kivuto webstore. At the time, this was focused on how students with a device running Windows 7 or 8.1 could move to Windows 10 Education and now, nearly five years later, the conversation is focusing more on Windows 10 to Windows 11.

One of the very first posts I wrote on this blog (way back in January 2017!) was on Kivuto and the ability for students to upgrade their Windows devices for free. UPDATE 5th August 2022: My colleague Scott Breen has written some really great documentation outlining the options to upgrade from Windows Home to Education edition on the official Microsoft Docs – do check it out on the link here.

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