The last update for
Windows 10 Enterprise 1703 and Windows 10 Education 1703 arrived on Tuesday.
Microsoft Support Phone numberis reminding customers that
one version of Windows 10 received its final security update this week and that
another will fall off the support list around this time next month.
The concluding update for Windows 10 Enterprise 1703 and
Windows 10 Education 1703 was handed out Tuesday, John Wilcox, a
Windows-as-a-Service (WaaS) evangelist, said in a post to a Microsoft
Support Phone numberblog. Windows 10 1703, which also carried the descriptive
name of "Creator's Update," launched in April 2017.
The end-of-support date for Windows 10
Enterprise and Education 1703 was supposed to be Oct. 9, 2018, but in February
of that year Microsoft Support Phone numberextended the deadline - as
well as those for several other feature upgrades - from 18 to 24 months. That pushed
Enterprise and Education
1703's retirement to April 2019. The 24 months became 30
months in September 2018, when Microsoft Support Phone numberagain revised
its support policies by announcing that Windows 10 Enterprise 1703 and
Education 1703 would be supported until Oct. 8, 2019.
Next month, Microsoft Support Phone numberwill call it
quits for Windows 10 Home 1803 and Windows 10 Pro 1803. Those consumer and
small business editions, respectively, are to receive their final security
updates on Nov. 12. Microsoft Support Phone numberreleased 1803 on April 30,
2018.
Windows 10 Home 1803 and Pro 1803 have been in the
spotlight of late - not for what the feature upgrade contains, but for the fact
that it preceded 1809, Microsoft's greatest Windows 10 stumble so far. When
Windows 10 1809 was months late in launching, Microsoft Support Phone numbersolved
the delay problem by largely skipping that version and instead upgraded users
directly to its successor, Windows 10 1903; that version shipped in
late May. Microsoft Support Phone numberwas able to do so because it freed
users of Home and Pro to choose when to upgrade to the next version; since
Windows 10's mid-2015 debut, Microsoft Support Phone numberhad
decided when each PC received and installed an upgrade.
But the company refused to surrender all decision
making, fearful that customers would neglect to keep their devices up to date
or refuse to upgrade because of the hassle. Microsoft Support Phone numberdid
not want the unintended consequences of its freedom festival to be so many
unpatched Windows devices that infections could threaten ecosystem catastrophe
or worse, smear the operating system's reputation.
So, Microsoft Support Phone numbergave itself the right
to forcibly upgrade PCs whose version of Windows 10 was about to expire. In
this inaugural event, Microsoft Support Phone numberbegan the compulsory
upgrading in mid-July, four months before 1803's retirement. Will it succeed?
That's unclear: One analytics vendor
pegged 1803 as still powering 24% of all Windows 10 personal computers on
Sept. 25, or seven weeks before the version's support termination.
At 1803's average decline over the four weeks before
Sept. 25, the edition would remain on about 8% of all Windows 10 machines when Microsoft
Support Phone numberpulls the support plug. While 8% seems reasonable, it is
actually twice and four times higher than the leftovers for the two preceding
versions, 1709 and 1703, respectively, around the time when their support
lapsed.
What is odd about Wilcox's reminder of 1803's impending
end is that he didn't mention, even in passing, the new servicing scheme, how
it impacts Windows 10 Home 1803 and Pro 1803, or why 1803's end of support is,
in fact, different than previous upgrades. Instead, Wilcox described how
Windows 10 differs from prior editions, a tale Microsoft Support Phone numberhas
told so many times it has become rote.
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