4.2.4 Windows 11 Editions.txt

In this lesson, we’ll discuss the four most common editions of Windows 11. Windows 11 is similar to Windows 10 in many ways, including the editions it has available. Just like Windows 10, these are Home, Pro, Pro for Workstations, and Enterprise. Home Edition 0:18-1:01 The new design of Windows 11 i...

In this lesson, we’ll discuss the four most common editions of Windows 11. Windows 11 is similar to Windows 10 in many ways, including the editions it has available. Just like Windows 10, these are Home, Pro, Pro for Workstations, and Enterprise. Home Edition 0:18-1:01 The new design of Windows 11 is intended to be more user-friendly and geared more toward hybrid working environments that can go from home to work, even if the transition is in the same home office. Windows 11 Home edition is the basic version that’s meant to provide the features that most users want for their personal home computer use. Home edition offers convenience features like parental controls, Find My Device, snap layouts, memory redocking, and desktop groups. It also includes many familiar security features, such as Windows Hello, device encryption, firewall and network protection, and Secure Boot. One difference is that Windows 11 is available only in a 64-bit version, unlike Windows 10, which offered both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Pro Edition 1:02-1:47 Windows 11 Pro edition is designed for business professionals and small businesses. Pro edition offers all the features that Home edition does plus more security and business management options, like BitLocker, Dynamic Provisioning, Group Policy Management, Hyper-V, and Assigned Access. Let’s take a quick look at each of these. BitLocker is an encryption mechanism you can implement to encrypt an entire hard drive. Dynamic Provisioning gives the administrator the option to configure a new device without the need for a new custom image. Group Policy Management allows you to easily mange PCs, groups, and user accounts. By enabling Hyper-V on Windows 11, you can create one or more virtual machines that’ll run their own operating systems. And Assigned Access allows separation of identities for applications on different devices. Pro for Workstations Edition 1:48-2:36 Now let’s look at Windows 11 Pro for Workstations. This edition is designed for powerful machines and disciplines that are heavily data driven, such as researchers, CAD professionals, and scientists. Pro for Workstations doubles the capacity of the Pro edition from 2 to 4 CPUs and has the capacity of 6 TB of RAM. It offers all the features of the Pro edition plus persistent memory, which is a non-volatile memory module technology. Power cycles retain data in memory even during unexpected shutdowns. Pro for Workstations also offers SMB Direct for faster file sharing through RDMA, or remote direct memory access. Another bonus is the Resilient File System. This feature helps with data integrity by replacing any detected corrupt data on a mirrored drive with uncorrupted data from another drive. Enterprise Edition 2:37-3:04 Enterprise edition was initially designed solely for large organizations, but now it includes more options for small businesses, too. All Enterprise edition options are designed with IT management in mind, and they all still require a licensing agreement. Additional features are available for security and compliance. For example, Enterprise editions have things like AppLocker, Credential Guard, and Device Guard. They also give administrators more granular control and provide Windows’ most comprehensive security protection yet. Summary 3:05-3:41 That’s it for now. In this video, we looked at the differences between the common editions of Windows 11. First, we looked at Home edition, which is primarily designed with individual users in mind. Then we looked at Pro edition, which is designed for business professionals and is a good option for many small businesses. Next, we talked about the Pro for Workstations edition. This is like the bodybuilding version of the Pro edition, designed for heavy computing needs. Engineers, media design teams, animators, scientists, and CAD professionals usually benefit the most from this option. And we finished this lesson by discussing the Enterprise edition, which is traditionally intended for large organizations, but increasingly offers options for smaller businesses as well. Kernel 2:39-3:05 The first component of the operating system is called the kernel. The kernel is the core of the operating system. It’s what’s loaded into memory when the system boots up. The kernel performs most of the critical operating system jobs that we just talked about. It’s responsible for managing the file system. It’s responsible for managing security, for working with the hardware, and for providing a platform for applications to run on. The kernel runs behind the scenes and does the bulk of the work, so you won’t work with it. Utilities 3:06-3:53 Utilities are another component of a typical operating system. The utilities are the parts that you actually work with on a daily basis. For example, if you’re using Windows and you open My Computer, browse your hard drive, and open a file, you’re using a utility. You’re not actually using the kernel but you’re using a utility that’s part of the operating system that’s interacting with the kernel to do a particular job. Most operating systems come with many utilities. Today’s operating systems are huge, in large part because of the utilities that we pack around the kernel. We could draw that like this we have our kernel and then all around the kernel we have many different utilities. Another key component of the operating system is called an interface. The interface allows the user to interact with the kernel and the utilities. There are two different types of interfaces. Interfaces 3:54-4:42 The first type of interface is a command line interface. which we see used more more often on Linux than Windows. If you want to run a program or a utility, you type the command at the prompt, hit Enter and the program or utility runs. Command line interfaces are very powerful. The second type of interface is called a graphical user interface, or GUI. Instead of using a command line, a GUI represents things graphically on the screen. If you’ve used Windows and you’ve clicked on the icons or the Start button with a mouse, you’ve used a graphical user interface. Many Linux systems also provide a GUI that functions very similar to a windows GUI The command line interface and the graphical user interface are both fantastic for their different purposes. Sometimes you need the power and flexibility offered by a command line interface. However, when you’re just doing day-to-day work, it’s nice to be able to double-click on something and have it work. Summary 4:43-5:04 That’s it for this lesson. In this lesson, you learned that the role of the operating system is to act as an interface for applications, access the hardware, provide security, and manage the file system. The components of the operating system include the kernel, which manages the file system and security and works with the hardware and provides a platform for applications to run on. And we use an interface to run utilities and applications that run on the kernel itself.