Last week, Microsoft announced a slew of changes to Windows 10 support, again acknowledging that its rapid development and release tempo is still being resisted by its most important customers, enterprises.
"Many customers have made significant progress in moving to Windows as a service ... [but] some customers have requested an extension to the standard 18 months of support for Windows 10 releases," acknowledged Bernardo Caldas, Windows' general manager, in a Feb. 1 post to a company blog.
What, exactly, did Microsoft do to accommodate those users? And did it offer anything to customers who didn't - or cannot - complain?
We have answers to those questions, and others.
What's happening to Windows 10 support? Microsoft is changing the length of time it will support some editions. Again.
If you're running Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro, the timeline changes do not affect you. But Microsoft did reveal other information important to you and your PC, so keep reading.
What's new about Windows 10 Enterprise support? Microsoft gave its most important customers - larger organizations - an extra six months of support for each already-issued Windows 10 feature upgrade.
Rather than stop updates to Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education versions 1607, 1703 and 1709 after 18 months, Microsoft will provide 24 months of support for those feature upgrades.
The nineteenth through twenty-fourth months of that support will be limited to security-only updates; there will be no non-security bug fixes issued for 1607, 1703 and 1709 during the six-month extension.
