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I turned this off as soon as I setup the PC, there's zero need for this on desktops. Once again, Microsoft's making a stupid move.
Also, is always encrypting drives even a good or desirable thing for most users?
I don't know the details, but what if someone forgets the password, or some PC components get broken, but they still want their data put of there?
Disk encryption is something that should be a choice, opt-in.
Windows Education is fairly common on laptops (kind of a hybrid between Pro and Enterprise from what I can tell). But even in the case of Pro it would be up to the OEM if you're buying a pre-built. This would mostly only affect people who have gone out of the way to install Pro themselves, and don't know how to bypass it (although maybe some prebuilts have it used as an oversight, or intentional feature).
You can buy laptops with it installed, is what I meant to say.