Windows 11 Home vs Pro: what's the difference & should you upgrade?

In this step-by-step overview, learn about the key differences between the Windows 11 Home Edition and Professional Edition and whether it's worth upgrading to Pro.

Professional includes all features that come with the Home Edition, including the following features:
- Support for 2 CPUs with 128 cores (vs. 1 CPU with 64 cores)
- Up to 2TB of RAM (vs. 128GB with Home)
- Sandbox
- Hyper-V
- Remote Desktop (Host)
- Bit locker Drive encryption
- Windows Information Protection
- Mobile device management
- Group policy
- Enterprise state roaming
- Assigned access
- Dynamic provisioning
- Windows Update for Business
- Azure Directory
- Join domain
- Kiosk mode

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⌚ Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Windows 11 New Features
1:08 System requirements & upper limits
2:46 Sandbox
3:30 Hyper-V
4:30 Remote desktop
5:50 Windows Information Protection
6:08 Enterprise management features
6:44 How to upgrade
7:07 Wrap up

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[D.HansonOfficial]

2:12 "Why would you ever need that much ram?"
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[guillaumecourtens]

Famous last words : nobody will ever need that much memory 😹

[frank]

I found every youtuber talking about the difference missed one big feature: Pro version allows all display languages, whereas Home version only allows using one default language. It's a very important feature for multilingual users, I switch between English, Chinese and Japanese frequently.

[HelloKittyFanMan]

Nice, thanks for this video. I hear that both are even better now that we're 2 years into this thing!

[manti]

Encryption & Sandbox options is one of the big things for me when it comes to Home vs Pro I recently got a upgrade key to upgrade my Windows 10 Home keep up the good work my man.

[bashwrl.shakir]

Presenting the topic in an amazing way, well-done man, thanks

[SimpleSheets]

A million subscribers 🤯 well deserved, Kevin!

[TechJawir]

2:34 Thanks for the info Kevin. It's the information that I need before I use Windows 11

[JustBlankNoInfo]

Great overview of Home vs. Professional. My laptop used to have Windows Professional, but now it belongs to a relative. I'm now using Home. Until I saw this video, I didn't think there was much of a distinction between Pro and Home. But, thanks to you, I now understand that there are considerable gaps. Keep rocking with Windows 11!

[PopCapMusicTrending]

Hi Kevin, do you have a video about the importance of product keys in Windows, and what do you think is the impact on the future of the pc (if any) if you bought non-authorized key? Thank you!

[stevenschembri]

Brilliant video. It has really helped me with my purchasing decision. Thank you!!!

[kishorsharma]

Very helpful information mate
Thanks 👏

[crocodile]

Thanks for the information sir! I found it very useful.❤

[anthonyjgreene]

Thank you for the video. Concise and very informative. Will definitely be going Pro for hyper-v

[RalphOpinion]

Helpful vid @kevin If I buy from Microsoft store will that be a retail version that I can transfer indefinitely?

[freshfingersff]

Very educative . Watching from Cameroon

[ahmedhihsan]

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[JuanPabloGallego]

Thank you for the overview! I am interested in both my wife and I using the same desktop computer SIMULTANEOUSLY.... will either of these products HOME or PRO, allow us to do so? When I note simultaneously, I dont mean on the same desktop, but just each of us accessing the computer and working on our separate files / accounts ? Thank you in advance

[andrewwmitchell]

Thanks. Recently installed Win 11 on an older i5 and it activated with Win 11 Pro so good to know about Sandbox and I've just turned bitlocker on too.

[GhosPoison]

I saved this video, you are clear and concise, thanks