Most gamers and PC enthusiasts are exposed to just two editions of client Windows 11—Windows 11 Pro, and Windows 11 Home, and assume that power users are served the former by Microsoft. It turns out that Microsoft built an edition of Windows 11 that sits halfway between Windows 11 Pro and Windows Server, called Windows 11 Pro for Workstations. This is effectively "Windows 11 Pro Max," and dates as far back as 2021, and as a successor to the 2017 Windows 10 Pro for Workstations.

Windows 11 Pro for Workstations comes with reduced "consumer bloat," don't expect the Start menu to feature sponsored shortcuts to Candy Crush Saga or Netflix. It also comes with several features not found on Windows 11 Pro. To begin with, it supports ReFS (Resilient File System), a successor to NTFS that offers super resilience for fault-tolerant storage spaces. It also has hardware support not found on Windows 11 Pro.