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That's why everyone should be marking the calendar with Windows' most important release events. This is the latest schedule; pencil in these dates. Windows 10 21H1 — probably nicknamed "April Update" — may release after this date, the month's Patch Tuesday. Remember, Microsoft changed its feature upgrade naming convention in June , dropping the yymm format for the new yyH1 and yyH2 for each year's first- and second-half releases.

It is possible that Microsoft will not issue a spring feature upgrade as it's done since ; reports have circulated that the firm will shift to a once-a-year tempo by giving the first slot of to the launch of Windows 10X , another attempt by the company to craft a lighter-weight OS to compete with the likes of Google's Chrome OS and Apple's iPadOS. If Windows 10 21H1 does appear, it will be installed primarily by Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro customers because of its shorter month support lifecycle.

On this date, Microsoft told commercial customers that Windows 10 was reliable and stable enough that it could be deployed to all corporate PCs. That guidance was notable — not for its appearance, for Microsoft has consistently declared Windows 10 versions' suitability for broad rollout — but because it came more than eight months after the May 27, , launch of Windows 10 The delay was the longest yet for Microsoft, breaking the prior record of six and a half months set by Windows 10 , 's immediate predecessor.

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. Similar to previous versions, the May Update rollout will take month as only devices known to be compatible will be getting the feature update first. Also, during the entire rollout, Microsoft will remain vigilant and block computers with compatibility problems from receiving the update until the issue has been resolved.

Cortana and Search are now two seperate features , which you can disable independently from the taskbar, and the Search experience has been updated with a new interface, activities from Timeline, and a short list of your most frequent applications.

Windows Sandbox is another big feature that introduces a lightweight isolated environment to test untrusted applications without affecting your device or files. When a new update is available, Windows 10 will delete the files on the reserved storage automatically allowing updates to install successfully.

You can learn more about all the new features and improvements coming this year in this guide. Although we all are waiting for Windows 10 version to arrive, during the early days major releases are known to ship with unknown issues, bugs, and compatibility problems. We hate spam as much as you! Unsubscribe any time Powered by follow.