{"id":4907,"date":"2012-09-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/09\/27\/powertip-check-windows-8-edition-by-using-powershell-3-0\/"},"modified":"2012-09-27T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-check-windows-8-edition-by-using-powershell-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-check-windows-8-edition-by-using-powershell-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Check Windows 8 Edition by Using PowerShell 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to determine the specific edition of Windows 8 running on your computer.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Using Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows 8, how can you determine the edition of Windows that is installed?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Get-Windo<\/b>wsEdition cmdlet with the Online<\/b> <\/i>switch:<\/p>\n

           Get-WindowsEdition -Online<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to determine the specific edition of Windows 8 running on your computer.  Using Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows 8, how can you determine the edition of Windows that is installed?  Use the Get-WindowsEdition cmdlet with the Online switch:            Get-WindowsEdition -Online  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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