Buy Windows 10 without risk

The short form of this article for the impatient is: The easiest and cheapest way to buy Windows 10 Home or Pro is if you either choose a PC with Windows preinstalled (there are also used ones) or a system builder license, which you can best buy from a reputable supplier who also assembles PCs. Enterprise licenses, on the other hand, are only available as a package and with special contracts from Microsoft and its partner companies. With these offers you are on the legally safe side. But Microsoft would not be Microsoft if this short form really covered all cases.
Preinstalled Windows 10

The most convenient way to get Windows 10 legally harmless is to buy a desktop PC or notebook with this operating system pre-installed. Then you don't have to worry about buying or installing Windows separately, and the drivers are already set up. Windows is not free of charge, the license costs are only hidden in the total price of the device. You save anyway, because especially the big PC manufacturers get huge discounts from Microsoft, which they (thanks to the price war) pass on to the customers.

Which Windows edition is preinstalled on a computer is not subject to any fixed rules - the only thing that is certain is that it is not Enterprise, because there are none. Usually, however, Windows 10 Home is preinstalled for computers aimed at private customers and the Pro Edition for business offers. Unlike Home, the latter offers, among other things, Bitlocker hard disk encryption, Hyper-V desktop virtualization, the group policy editor, more powerful user management and much more. For a simple typewriter, surfing and gaming machine, home is often enough