• As expected, Win10 version 1809 launched today – but don’t panic

    Posted on October 2, 2018 at 17:19 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Win10 1809 officially dropped a couple of hours ago, but you won’t get bit by it – won’t get tossed into the extended unpaid beta testing phase – unless you go looking.

    Microsoft has an official guide to the update rollout here:

    While we encourage you to wait until the update is offered to your device, if you’re an advanced user on an actively serviced version of Windows 10 and would like to install the Windows 10 October 2018 Update now, you can do so by manually checking for updates. In the Search box in the taskbar, type “Check for updates.” Once there, simply click “Check for updates” to begin the download and installation process. We are also streamlining the ability for users who seek to manually check for updates by limiting this to devices with no known key blocking issues, based on our ML model. If we detect that your device has a compatibility issue, we will not install the update until that issue is resolved, even if you “Check for updates.”

    So breathe easy for now and don’t Check for updates.

    UPDATE: Preston Gralla has a thorough — not fawning — review in Computerworld.

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