Windows 2022

Windows 2022 is a small upgrade from Windows 11 having better security and is more focused towards schools and businesses. Its interface is almost the same as Windows 11.

## Editions

Windows 2022 came in different editions to better suit the needs of home, school or business owners. One could get Windows 2022 for free from Windows 11 if one used the same edition as the one you want to upgrade to.

* Basic Home Edition (price: 90$)
* Premium Home Edition (price: 95$)
* Business Edition (price: 100$)
* Education Edition (price: 45$ or free for some schools)

## New features

### Community Defender

All editions of Windows 2022 included Community Defender, an antivirus program based on reports from its users. One was strongly advised to report almost every program one used so the file-base could expand. A neat feature of this AV was that if Windows Defender reported a program as a virus, it would check the Community Defender file-base to check for any false-positives.

### Business Manager

Business Manager was a program for managing workers/students.

#### For Business Edition

In Business Edition of Windows 2022, Business Manager let business owners to manage the roles of their employees. Owners could create a cloud on their own server or buy Microsoft OneDrive for businesses. Workers could then store their files (such as reports) on their cloud. Passwords set by the owner needed to be entered correctly to view and edit a worker's cloud 'space', as named by Microsoft.

#### For Education Edition

Although having the same name, Business Manager was a bit different than the one used in Business Edition. Workers were called "teachers" and Microsoft OneDrive was cheaper or free if one got Education Edition for free.

### Schoplod

Schoplod was a program designed by Microsoft and included in Windows 2022 home editions and Education Edition. It looked like a Microsoft version of Google Classroom used for teachers to create assignments. A free download was available on the Microsoft website.

Teachers would create an assignment and the title and details would stored into the Schoplod student account space. When students submitted their file(s), they would be temporarily be stored into the cloud space until the teacher downloaded the submitted file(s).

## Builds

### Build 1006

Microsoft began work on Windows 2022 in 2021.

### Build 1072 (January 1, 2022)

First confirmed leak. Some reported Windows as being Windows Ceres, while others reported it as being Windows 11. Beta Feedback seemed to be added or might have already been in previous builds.

### Build 1196 (February 25, 2022)

Beta versions of Business Manager, Schoplod and Community Defender were added. When trying to submit a report about a program in Community Defender, the following error message was displayed: "Uh-oh! A failure happened connecting to the servers! Be a good tester and report this via the Beta Feedback program," although Schoplod and Business Manager worked fine. The name of Windows Ceres was changed to Windows 2022.

### Build 1239 (February 28, 2022)

Community Defender was fixed. This was the first build released to insiders. Additionally, the beta error message changed to: "A problem occurred. Please report this via the Beta Feedback program."

### Build 2000 (March 4, 2022)

Windows 2022 was finalized and released to the public. Shortly after the release, Microsoft removed all of the beta error messages and replaced them with standard error messages.