Beware the change for the sake of change gremlins!

[RetiredGeekAskWoody MVP]

Hey Y’all,

Here’s one for the books. Two machines both running W10 1809.

In Windows Optional Features you’ll find Microsoft-Hyper-V

on the other machine you’ll won’t find Microsoft-Hyper-V but rather VirtualMachinePlatform as the optional feature.

This one had me scratching the ole noggin for a while as I’ve displayed the windows version on the desktop and both reported: Build 17763.rs5_release.180914-1434.

However upon running WinVer I discovered:

Just gotta love the Microsofties don’t you?

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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[PKCanoDa Boss]

Looks like the difference is between the April and May updates.

[NetDefAskWoody_MVP]

Home versus Pro editions.

 

On Pro you get a real Hyper-V which allows you to host VM’s using Microsoft’s engine.

On Home you get Windows Hypervisor Platform which is a set of API’s required by some third party virtual machine engines – but not much else.

More info about the latter here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/

 

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[RetiredGeekAskWoody MVP]

Here’s another interesting article on the topic. 😎

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

PowerShell & VBA Rule!
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