Even more evidence that there will never be a “real” Win10 version 1909

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I’ve been speculating (spreading rumors?) about this for months, but it seems highly unlikely we’ll ever see anything resembling a “real” Win10 versio
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Depends what your definition of “real” is. Not even “cosmetic changes” or “phantom features”?

Enterprise and Education are going to expect a version to be supported for 30 months from then.

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Enterprise pretty much won’t touch anything but LTSC, not even with a 10tf pole. They don’t have time for this madness.

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No Office 365 then? I thought Enterprises were rather keen on that.

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I know of at least one big engineering company that chose LTSB 2016 – it was either that or they were staying on Windows 7. The removal of support for Office 365 was done by Microsoft to discourage LTSB/LTSC adoption, but it wasn’t there from the start.

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This is embarrassingly inaccurate.  Microsoft doesn’t support, promote or recommend using LTSC for a business desktop.  It’s for, like, kiosks and medical equipment and so on.

To wit….. We’ve got a fleet of 10,000+ Windows 10 machines here.  Everyone was just updated to 1809 Enterprise — non-LTSC — last week.  Previously most people were on some combination of 1607, 1709 and 1803.

 

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Yep, and if we’re luck y this will be the beginning of a “one real update a year” tempo – with a Service Pack, er, “tock” version in the Fall.

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If it should be the case that MS intend to scale back on the frequency of the Windows 10 versions and revert to an annual or even occasional “Service Pack plus monthly updates” development cycle, then that raises the question of whether they are going to end up similarly reconsidering the EOL arrangements for Windows 7, as well as the question of whether they are making such a change to Windows 10 version releases – if they are doing so – because of problems in maintaining the quality of Windows 10 version development or because of the failure to convert more Windows 7 users to Windows 10 in the first place.

Whatever position or view you take on all this, the next few months could well prove interesting…

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I saw a Mary Jo Foley tweet saying that she’s heard the 19h2 release will be little more than a service pack for 19H1. NO, that does not mean they are going back to service packs. The terminology was just to give a sense of the type of content.

--Joe

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or is this the initial sign that Microsoft is pulling back from the consumer desktop market to go down the Chromebook / Cloud approach

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I suspect the vast majority of everyday consumers who use Windows for more than browsing the internet or email are those who play games requiring Windows.  For example, those who have libraries on Steam, Origin, Uplay, etc.  It will be interesting to see the fallout from that industry if Microsoft tries to move the consumer market to a Chromebook/cloud approach.

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