As Computerworld explained earlier this month, Microsoft will probably have to issue additional refreshes after the one this fall. However, Microsoft did not say whether additional Windows 10 feature upgrades will be offered after 21H2. Microsoft's changed the support timeline for individual feature upgrades before - it lengthened several during the COVID-19 pandemic, for instance - and could do so again.

To this point, Microsoft has not altered the Windows 10 support lifecycle, so the 18- and 30-month periods remain in place. Windows 10 21H2, then, will retire in the spring of 2024 on Enterprise/Education but a year earlier on Home/Pro. It will come with the standard 30 months of support on devices running Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education (but only 18 months for all others). There will be a feature upgrade later in the year, Microsoft said, labeling it 21H2. 14, 2025, or in four years, three months and change. Windows 10, here until 2025Īs Microsoft said before, Windows 10 will exit support Oct. Need more proof? 'Windows 10 and Windows 11 are designed to coexist,' Microsoft said Thursday in its opening documentation on Windows 11. Both will receive monthly security updates, the hallmark of Microsoft's support policies.

In other words, as Windows 7 was to Windows 10, so will Windows 10 be to Windows 11. 'As you make the move to Windows 11, we will continue to support you as you use Windows 10,' wrote Wangui McKelvey, general manager with the Microsoft 365 team, in a June 24 post to a company blog.

Microsoft may have implied it previously, but it's now confirmed: For a time, both Windows 10 and Windows 11 will be in play. Later, we'll be back with more about Windows 11, Windows 10 and their commercial customers. We've collected some of the salient points about Windows 11, the ones enterprise IT admins will most need to know. Although details remain somewhat sketchy, Windows 11 won't be an exact copy of Windows 10, renamed.

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