Microsoft’s latest update upheaval will have long-term impact on Windows 10, affecting enterprise and small business upgrade scheduling and pushing consumers to continue working as free testers for the company.
The biggest news from Microsoft’s July 1 announcement about the-until-then-ignored Windows 10 1909 – the second upgrade of 2019, tagged with the firm’s yymm format – was that the company is scaling back feature upgrades, true feature upgrades, to just one a year. What had been the fall refresh would, in fact, shrink to the equal of an old-school “service pack,” last used with Windows 7.
