New Windows 10 Pro Will Be Most Powerful Yet




/ 7 years ago

New Windows 10 pro Will Be Most Powerful Yet

Last week, Microsoft accidentally pushed a number of unfinished Windows 10 preview builds to Insider program member. Two builds, in particular, suggests the Redmond company intends to release a new supercharged edition of Windows 10. The SKUs point to two variants of “Windows 10 Pro for Advanced PCs”. Soon after the find, the following slide – which confirms the new OS – leaked:

Windows 10 Pro for Advanced PCs

The new Windows 10 version will support PCs with up to four CPUs and 6TB RAM. The OS will also feature ReFS, Microsoft’s NTFS successor. The two versions leaked includes a standard and an N variant, the latter designed to comply with EU regulations.

According to the leaked slide, Windows 10 Pro boasts the following features:

  • Workstation Mode: Microsoft will optimize the OS to provide peak performance and reliability in graphics and compute intensive use cases when the Workstation mode is engaged by the users.
  • Resilient file system: ReFS is the successor of NTFS, which has been a mainstay of Windows for past several years. ReFS is designed for fault-tolerance, optimized for handling large data volume, auto-correcting and much more at the same time backward compatible with NTFS.
  • Faster file sharing: Microsoft is including the SMBDirect protocol based file sharing in Windows 10 Pro for Workstation which allows for high throughput, low latency and low CPU utilization when accessing network shares
  • Expanded hardware support: Microsoft is expanding hardware support in Windows 10 Pro for Workstation. Users will now be able to run Windows 10 Pro for Workstation on machines with up to 4 CPUs (todays limit of 2), and add memory up to 6TB.

Release and Availability

Microsoft has made no comment on the new operating system, and the leak does not suggest a release date. More information as we get it.


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