(Remember, Microsoft changed its feature upgrade naming convention in June 2020, dropping the yymm format for the new yyH1 and yyH2 for each year's first- and second-half releases.)

Windows 10 21H1 - probably nicknamed 'April 2021 Update' - may release after this date, the month's Patch Tuesday. This is the latest schedule pencil in these dates. That's why everyone should be marking the calendar with Windows' most important release events. Each mutation of the plan comes as a surprise to customers. For all its talk of 'monitoring feedback' and 'hoping to learn' whether to repeat the delivery of one major refresh and one very minor retread, or return to a pair of equal upgrades, Microsoft didn't seem to hesitate when picking the former – not during an upside-down, inside-out year of the novel coronavirus.Įach year of Windows 10 witnesses new decay of the original concept.

With half a year – first or second – as a target, Microsoft gave itself the wiggle room the original plan had rejected as old-fashioned, if not obsolete.Īnd as expected, Microsoft will reprise the 2019 major-minor release practice this year. This year, Microsoft messed with the nomenclature of the still-twice-annual upgrades, dropping the yy03 and yy09 labels for the vaguer yyH1 and yyH2, an admission that the supposed precision of the earlier tags fooled no one.

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