Windows yearly updates

While more Windows 10 updates will be welcome news for anyone who isn't ready to move to Windows 11 or whose hardware doesn't support the new OS , it's not clear what "feature updates" will entail for an operating system that has been replaced.

Microsoft does have a history of backporting some apps and APIs to older versions of Windows to increase adoption of new technologies and reduce the amount of work developers need to do. But there are already some features that are currently exclusive to Windows 11—including bit x86 app emulation on the ARM version of Windows 10 , the faster-to-update Microsoft Store version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux , the Windows Subsystem for Android in its entirety, and most of the updated first-party apps—and we'd expect that list to grow rather than shrink.

The "Windows-as-a-service" model as originally pitched was supposed to alleviate the fragmentation between different versions of Windows and to remove the need for feature backporting in the first place. It remains to be seen how Windows-as-a-service works when Microsoft is servicing two slightly but increasingly different versions of Windows in parallel. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

Privacy policy. Beginning with Windows 10, version 21H2, feature updates for Windows 10 release are released annually, in the second half of the calendar year, to the General Availability Channel. They will be serviced with monthly quality updates for 18 or 30 months from the date of the release, depending on the lifecycle policy. We recommend that you begin deployment of each General Availability Channel release immediately as a targeted deployment to devices selected for early adoption and ramp up to full deployment at your discretion.

This will enable you to gain access to new features, experiences, and integrated security as soon as possible.

For information about servicing timelines, see the Windows lifecycle FAQ. There goes the profit first, service last moto I guess…. TelV said on January 12, at am. Yuliya said on January 11, at pm. Shiva said on January 12, at am. Paul us said on January 12, at am. YAS said on January 12, at am. Attention: after installing update -Windows server R2 domain controllers keep restarting -One windows server installed on VMWARE Esxi loses a hard disk Both problems solved after uninstalling updates.

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