Check with your desktop support staff for more information. Windows 10 Education is available for Stanford-owned computers through Stanford's campus agreement with Microsoft. Contact your local IT local support for assistance. Note: You can do an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 Pro from Windows 7 SP1 Professional and Ultimate and Windows 8.1 Pro. Window 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education have very similar minimum hardware requirements to Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. BitLocker does require Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise versions.

TPM 1.2 or later is recommended but not required for BitLocker Encryption support for use in the Stanford Whole Disk Encryption (SWDE) service.DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.The minimum computer hardware requirements for running Windows 10, as recommended by Microsoft, are: Windows 10 Home is marketed to the home user, Windows 10 Education is available to schools through academic volume licensing, and Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise are marketed to the business user.ĭue to security concerns and to ensure compatibility with our campus computing infrastructure, University IT will support only Windows 10 Education, Windows 10 Pro, and Windows 10 Enterprise. The versions are differentiated by the features they provide. Windows 10 is available in four versions: