It does so by limiting the background activity on the device. Other than that, the Home edition also gets you features like Battery Saver, TPM support, and company's new biometrics security feature called Windows Hello.īattery Saver, for those unfamiliar, is a feature that makes your system more power efficient. You also get a full-fledged version of Cortana, the digital voice assistant formerly exclusively available on Windows Phone. The company decided to chop it off from Windows 8 three years ago, but on popular demand, this feature is making a return to the desktop operating system.
It comes with a number of new features including the revamped Start Menu. Windows 10 Home is the basic variant of Windows 10. This begs the question, which among Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Home is the right version for you. Unlike Windows 7 and 8.1, in which the basic variant was markedly crippled with fewer features than its professional counterpart, Windows 10 Home packs in a large set of new features that should suffice most users' needs. This is a stark contrast to earlier versions of Windows, which came in as many as seven editions. Of the two editions, Windows 10 Pro, as you may have guessed, has more features.
Microsoft Windows 10 for desktop, the successor to Windows 8.1, comes in two versions: Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Home.
