Every product, explained the same way.

Windows 11 Pro — editions, hardware floor, activation models, and the right licensing channel for business and power users.

Windows 11 Home — the consumer edition of Windows 11: features, limitations, hardware floor, and when you should upgrade to Pro.

Windows 11 Enterprise — the volume-only edition: Credential Guard, Application Guard, LTSC option, Autopatch and the Microsoft 365 E3/E5 bundle.

Windows 11 Education and Pro Education — feature-equivalent to Enterprise/Pro with education defaults, sold through academic Volume Licensing.

Windows 11 Pro for Workstations — the high-end desktop SKU: ReFS, persistent memory, SMB Direct, up to 6 TB RAM and four-socket hardware support.

Windows 10 Pro — still in production estates, now on Extended Security Updates: feature set, end-of-life timeline, and the path forward.

Windows 10 Home — consumer edition, end-of-support timeline, consumer ESU, and how it differs from Pro.

Windows 10 Enterprise — Volume Licensing, Microsoft 365 E3/E5 entitlement, LTSC 2021, and the commercial ESU path through 2028.

Windows 10 Education and Pro Education — academic Volume Licensing for institutions still on Windows 10, with the same end-of-support timeline.

Windows 10 Pro for Workstations — the legacy high-end desktop SKU: ReFS, persistent memory, SMB Direct, four-socket support.

Windows 8 and 8.1 — Start screen, Modern UI, what to do with deployments still running it.

Windows 7 — end of support January 2020, ESU through January 2023, migration paths to Windows 10/11.

Windows Embedded Industry / IoT Enterprise — long-life kiosk and device editions, 10-year support cycles.

Microsoft 365 — current Personal, Family, Business and Enterprise plans, how the SKUs differ, and the CSP buying path.

Office 2024 — the latest perpetual Office for retail, with LTSC 2024 as its volume-licensed sibling for regulated environments.

Project 2024 — desktop Standard / Professional, and the cloud Plan 1 / 3 / 5 for portfolio management.

Visio 2024 — Standard and Professional desktop, plus the cloud Plan 1 and Plan 2 subscriptions.

Office 2021 perpetual — Home & Business, Pro Plus, Mac editions, and LTSC under Volume Licensing: feature scope and support timeline.

Project 2021 Professional — perpetual desktop scheduler: features, Project Server / Project Online integration, support through 2026.

Visio 2021 Standard and Professional — perpetual desktop diagramming: stencils, BPMN, Azure diagrams, and Visio Plan 1/2 alternatives.

Office for Mac — perpetual editions for macOS: feature parity with Windows, App Store delivery, Volume Licensing through CSP.

Office 2019 — the previous-generation perpetual Office suite: editions, support timeline, and migration paths to 2021/2024 or Microsoft 365.

Office 2016 — end-of-life perpetual suite: what to do with deployments still running, and how to migrate cleanly.

Visio 2019 — Standard vs Professional, AWS / Azure stencil libraries, end of extended support October 2025.

Visio 2016 — IEEE-compliant electrical shapes, Office co-authoring on diagrams, end-of-life October 2025.

Project 2019 — Standard vs Professional, sprint planning, task-board views, end of extended support October 2025.

Project 2016 — multiple timelines, resource engagement workflow, end-of-life October 2025.

Windows Server 2025 — Standard vs Datacenter, per-core licensing, CALs, virtualisation rights and Azure Hybrid Benefit.

RDS on Windows Server 2025 — per-user vs per-device CALs, the RD Licensing role, and AVD as the cloud alternative.

System Center 2025 — SCOM, SCCM/MECM, SCVMM, DPM and Orchestrator for on-prem infrastructure management.

Windows Server 2022 — secured-core server, SMB over QUIC, hotpatching, Azure Arc integration: still the right choice for many on-prem refreshes.

RDS 2019 — per-user and per-device RDS CALs, role architecture, support through January 2029, and the migration to RDS 2025 / Azure Virtual Desktop.

Windows Server 2019 — Hyper-converged Storage Spaces Direct improvements, System Insights, Linux containers via WSL, hybrid integration.

Windows Server 2016 — first release with per-core licensing, Nano Server, Storage Spaces Direct, shielded VMs, native containers.

Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 — end-of-life status, ESU options, and migration paths.

SQL Server 2025 — editions, per-core vs Server+CAL, Azure-connected features and Software Assurance benefits.

SQL Server 2022 — Azure-connected hybrid features, per-core and Server+CAL licensing, Standard vs Enterprise vs Developer.

SQL Server 2019 — Big Data Clusters, intelligent query processing, per-core and Server+CAL licensing.

SQL Server 2017 — first SQL Server on Linux, adaptive query processing, graph data, Python machine learning services.

SQL Server 2016 — Always Encrypted, Stretch Database, JSON support, R Services. End of extended support July 2026.

Exchange Server SE — the new subscription-licensed on-premises Exchange, replacing the perpetual 2019 line.

SharePoint Server SE — the current on-premises SharePoint, with rolling feature updates and Server + CAL licensing.

Exchange Server 2019 — the last cumulative-update version before Exchange Server SE: per-server licensing, CALs, support timeline through October 2025.

SharePoint Server 2019 — Standard and Enterprise CALs, per-server licensing, SE upgrade path and end-of-mainstream-support reality.

Exchange Server 2016 — end-of-life messaging server, Standard vs Enterprise, CAL model, migration to Exchange Server SE or Exchange Online.

SharePoint Server 2016 — MinRole topology, hybrid sites with SharePoint Online, end-of-life and migration to SharePoint Subscription Edition.

Visual Studio 2022 — Community, Professional, Enterprise; subscription vs perpetual; Azure DevOps and GitHub benefits.

Visual Studio 2026 — the next major release of Microsoft's flagship IDE: editions, AI-first tooling, performance, and licensing channels.

Visual Studio 2019 — Live Share, IntelliCode, .NET Core 3 / .NET 5 tooling, end-of-mainstream-support status.

Visual Studio 2017 — workload-based installer, .NET Core 1.x/2.x tooling, end of support April 2027 for Enterprise LTSC.

Dynamics 365 — modular cloud ERP and CRM, licensed per user per app with base + attach pricing.