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This browser is no longer supported. Table of contents Exit focus mode. Table of contents. This applies to the following editions: Home, Pro, Pro Education, Pro for Workstations Important Beginning with Windows 10, version 21H2 the Windows 10 November Update , feature updates will be released annually in the second half of the year via the General Availability Channel.

Note Unless deferred, subsequent Windows 10 feature updates may be installed prior to the listed end of Mainstream Support date. Previously, the time gap between launch and a Microsoft declaration was shorter, on the order of four months as an average. So, why did it take nearly half the month support lifetime of Windows 10 to declare it safe and sound? And more importantly, are these notifications still valuable to IT administrators? Computerworld doesn't have definitive answers for the first two questions.

On the third, our take is that, no, they're not. Not with delays so lengthy that the messages become meaningless, so tardy that months of active use were wasted. Computerworld will, for now, continue to insert its projected dates for Microsoft's ready-for-business into this calendar, using a seven-month lag between release and notice, a rough average of the last two notifications. Frankly, IT admins would be better served to use their own judgment, not Redmond's, as to when to push a larger deployment.

Microsoft serves the last security patches and other bug fixes to Windows 10 Home , Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Pro Workstation , wrapping up 18 months of support. Microsoft delivers the final updates for Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education , ending 30 months of support for the fall feature upgrade.

Customers running must migrate to a newer refresh — , , 20H1, 20H2 or even the possibly-just launched 21H1 — to continue to receive security patches. Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 and Windows 10 Education 20H2 would seem to be the best bet, since they have the most support remaining about 24 months from this date.

Somewhere around this date, Microsoft should inform IT admins that Windows 10 20H2 — the service pack issued seven months ago on Oct. Computerworld scoped out how Microsoft might deal with the no-show of Windows 10 21H1 to make room for an introduction of Windows 10X in that story's "No spring, forward to fall" section.

There's no need to walk that ground again. Suffice it to say that one way Microsoft could handle the problem would be to upgrade Windows 10 with version 20H2, a one-time stutter step to prep for a switch to upgrading in the fall , not the spring , each year. Computerworld laid out how Microsoft might do that, theorizing that the developer would warn users of Windows 10 early this year of the change. It hasn't. Microsoft may alert enterprise customers around this time that Windows 10 21H2 is available for "commercial pre-release validation.

In , two months before launching Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft said the upgrade was "available for commercial customers to begin feature exploration and validation prior to being released for general availability. The early look at 20H2 was possible, of course, because the fall feature upgrade was little more than a rehash of the spring's Windows 10 Microsoft switched its labeling between the two, discarding the yymm construction for yyH1 and yyH2.

Yes, Microsoft's nomenclature tinkering is endless The changes embedded in 20H2 were both few and minor, and importantly, were tucked into the Windows 10 code weeks before 20H2 officially went live on Oct. Microsoft's urging of customers to start putting Windows 10 20H2 through the testing wringer was explicit in The year before, when Microsoft first turned to a major-minor upgrade cycle, it had left this early jump to customers' and Computerworld's imaginations.

If the company does repeat 's and 's release practice, Computerworld believes it will formalize this practice, and again tell corporate customer to start testing two months before public launch. Microsoft begins rolling out Windows 10 21H2, aka "October Update," after this date. The probable launch: Patch Tuesday, Oct. The month support lifecycle on Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education means this will be the year's preferred upgrade for Microsoft's larger customers.

The Redmond, Wash. This date ends some support, including feature change requests and non-security bug fixes. For a more detailed description of Mainstream and Extended, refer to this document.

The successor to LTSC , which launched three years prior, this build will be supported until January In a May blog post, a Microsoft marketing manager announced that customers could expect the next LTSC " toward the end of

 

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  There also may be some compatibility issues, according to Microsoft's blog post -- if that happens, Microsoft has a safeguard hold in place and will not offer you the update until the team is confident that you'll have a good update experience. Windows 10 is often described by Microsoft as being a "service", as it receives regular "feature updates" that contain new features and other updates and fixes.