<story><title>Introducing Windows 10 Editions</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/13/introducing-windows-10-editions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>I realize Microsoft has to price segment, which requires they call out an &amp;quot;Enterprise&amp;quot; category for Mobile and Laptop&amp;#x2F;Desktop, but sometimes I wonder if they really need all of these categories.&lt;p&gt;For example, do they really get significant financial value from having a Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Education, Windows 10 Pro?  &lt;i&gt;particularly&lt;/i&gt; as they are offering it as a free upgrade to Windows 7&amp;#x2F;8 users.&lt;p&gt;Notice they don&amp;#x27;t have a Windows 10 Mobile Home, Windows 10 Mobile Education, and Windows 10 Mobile Pro - just plain, &amp;quot;Windows 10 Mobile&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is they would have managed to avoid customer confusion, and captured pretty much all the same economic value, with a simple list of:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Windows 10
  Windows 10 Mobile
  Windows 10 Enterprise
  Windows 10 Mobile Enteprise&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sonnyz</author><text>I agree. A simple &amp;quot;Windows 10&amp;quot; with no subtitle would really make things easier for the consumer. Appending &amp;#x27;Home&amp;#x27; on what is really a feature reduced version of Windows 10 doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be in the best interest of the customer.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing Windows 10 Editions</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/13/introducing-windows-10-editions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>I realize Microsoft has to price segment, which requires they call out an &amp;quot;Enterprise&amp;quot; category for Mobile and Laptop&amp;#x2F;Desktop, but sometimes I wonder if they really need all of these categories.&lt;p&gt;For example, do they really get significant financial value from having a Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Education, Windows 10 Pro?  &lt;i&gt;particularly&lt;/i&gt; as they are offering it as a free upgrade to Windows 7&amp;#x2F;8 users.&lt;p&gt;Notice they don&amp;#x27;t have a Windows 10 Mobile Home, Windows 10 Mobile Education, and Windows 10 Mobile Pro - just plain, &amp;quot;Windows 10 Mobile&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is they would have managed to avoid customer confusion, and captured pretty much all the same economic value, with a simple list of:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Windows 10
  Windows 10 Mobile
  Windows 10 Enterprise
  Windows 10 Mobile Enteprise&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bskap</author><text>&amp;quot;Pro&amp;quot; is for people that don&amp;#x27;t have volume licenses but want the business-specific features like domain joining. Remember, Windows 10 may be a free upgrade, but it&amp;#x27;s not free and I imagine they still make quite a bit of extra money from businesses buying Pro.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Education&amp;quot; looks like it&amp;#x27;s a discounted volume license available to schools. Not sure what extra features it&amp;#x27;s going to have but it&amp;#x27;s not something that anyone other than a school administrator will ever care about.</text></comment>