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Yolando Pereira
Microsoft
MicrosoftWindows Defender Application Guard Standalone mode
Many businesses worldwide have come under increasing threat of targeted attacks, where attackers are crafting specialized attacks against a particular business, attempting to take control of corp...
Application Guard feature just like Credential Guard and Device Guard depends on underlying feature called Virtual Secure Mode. Which depends on Hyper-V and is Controlled by Group Policy and all these features are available on Enterprise Edition only. Virtualization extensions might or might not be present on all underlying hardware, though mostly they are present now a days.
Hence the reason for this to be available on Enterprise edition only.
Refer:
application-guard-microsoft-edge
Does this that Hyper-V will be removed from Windows 10 Pro in next releases?
No. If you download a Windows Insider build you'll see Hyper-V is in Windows 10 Pro as well.
