Let’s take a look at most of the common Windows versions. Here is an example based on Windows 11, which are Home Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition, Education Edition, Professional Workstation Edition, Professional Education Edition, Family Single Language Edition, Home Chinese Edition, Enterprise Edition Multi-session, IoT Enterprise Edition, SE Edition, Professional Single Language Edition, Professional Chinese Edition
The Home Edition, Home Chinese Edition, and Home Single Language Edition are all branches of the Home Edition. They do not support Bitlocker, enterprise-level encryption, cloud management functions, or remote connections. The Home Chinese Edition and Home Single Language Edition are mostly provided by OEM devices. Yes, as the name suggests,
the maximum memory support of the Home Edition branch is 128GB, not as much as other branches, which is the least.
Of course, the Home Edition does not support functions such as Hyper-V virtual machine, SandBox sandbox, etc.
Official comparison between Windows 11 Home Edition and Professional Edition: www .microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compare-windows-11-home-vs-pro-versions
The Professional Edition, Professional Workstation Edition, Professional Single Language Edition, and Professional Chinese Edition all belong to the branches of the Enterprise Edition. The Professional Edition supports everything by default, and the maximum memory limit is 2TB, while the Professional Workstation Edition is 6TB. The single language version and the Chinese version are as the name suggests It is the OEM version. The Professional Workstation Edition provides support for flexible file systems, as well as permanent memory and SMB pass-through functions.
Windows 11 Professional Workstation Edition: www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/business/windows-11-pro
-Comparison between versions of workstations Windows 11: www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/business/compare-windows-11
Educational Edition, Professional Educational Edition, and SE Edition are branches of the Educational Edition. The Educational Edition is usually provided for OEM devices. The Educational Edition is pre-installed with many educational applications. For details, please refer to: docs.microsoft.com/zh-cn/education/ windows/windows-11-se-overview
Education Edition, the Education Edition branch supports up to 2TB of memory, the SE Edition is a streamlined version of the system, uses a cloud operating system, and is aimed at primary and secondary schools. The Education Edition system has many limitations, not all applications can Install the professional education version on it
, as the name suggests, it provides the functions of the professional version and the educational version, combined
Educational version: www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/education/products/windows
SE version: https://www.microsoft .com/en-us/education/products/windows-11-se
Enterprise Edition, Enterprise Edition Multi-session, and IoT Enterprise Edition are branches of the Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition branch supports a maximum memory of 6TB. The Enterprise Edition system is relatively simple, does not pre-install a useless application, does not support Xbox and Microsoft Store, but emphasizes Security and cloud technology, smoother than professional version win11 Multi-
session enterprise version, allowing multiple concurrent interactive sessions, see
loT enterprise version below, the operating system now supports Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI (WSLg), which can be enabled GUI application with redesigned user interface for IoT devices
Enterprise Edition: www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/windows-11-enterprise
Enterprise Edition Multi-session: docs.microsoft.com/en- cn/azure/virtual-desktop/windows-10-multisession-faq
Which is better? Personally, I think the Professional Workstation Edition is better. I have tried many versions. The Enterprise Edition does not support playing Xbox games, and cannot even log in, nor does it support the Microsoft Store. In terms of fluency, the Professional Workstation Edition has the best experience, at least in In Minecraft, the frame rate can be increased by about 15% compared with the professional version. Although the enterprise version can also reach this level, the enterprise version lacks many functions.
Windows Servers, which is different from Windows 10/11, is a special version for data centers, supports hot deployment, supports up to 48TB of memory, and is suitable for running on servers, but also does not support Xbox and the Microsoft App Store. Performance has been improved. In terms of game frame rate, Servers 2022 is about 15% higher than the professional workstation version, but in terms of productivity, it is not recommended. It is not as smooth as the professional workstation version in terms of video editing and other productivity, but if it is Server use is a good choice
Windows Servers Datacenter: www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/
Windows Servers 2022 Documentation: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/whats-new-in-windows- server-2022
version information: docs.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/release-health/windows-server-release-info
What is the difference between Windows Servers and Enterprise editions? The enterprise version belongs to the branch of win10/11 version, and Windows Servers is a separate version (although it is also developed based on win10/11/xp/7)