At work I use Windows 10 for Education and it runs nicely on hardware (Atom dual core with basic integrated graphics and 2G of RAM with spinning rust + some virtualised applications) that Windows 7 found problematic.

I'm just wondering: why the hassle? Just release a 'stand alone' win10 client without all the gunge. The clue is in the name - it is a client to services currently based on Microsoft software.