Summary

We can summarize the chapter with the following points:

• Windows 10 represents another Microsoft's Windows NT family operating system (OS) that merges Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 into a single OS
• Windows 10 new releases are offered through Windows as a service format
• Clean install (re)builds the OS and its utilities entirely from scratch, thus overwriting all the previous content on a disk
• An upgrade replaces your existing OS with a new one
• There are altogether 12 editions of Windows 10, each with unique features
• The Enterprise and Education editions are the only full-featured editions of Windows 10
• An installation media is a medium that contains the operating system files
• Clients are computers that request the resources in a computer network
• Servers are a network component that provides resources to clients
• A host is any device with an IP address that requests or provides networking resources to any other host or node on the network
• A node is any device that can generate, receive, and transmit the networking resources on the computer network and as such it has no communication interface with an IP address