As with 1511, Microsoft restricted the extra support to Enterprise and Education licenses and provided only those security patches rated "critical" and "important" to those customers.Īlthough industry analysts reported that their corporate clients want, even need, more than 18 months between feature upgrades - a consensus was building that a 24-month interval would be acceptable - Microsoft eliminated supplemental servicing. Three months later, however, the company added 1607, 17 to the supplementary servicing list. 10, 2017, would instead receive some security fixes until April 10, 2018.Īt the time, Microsoft said it would only add support to 1511. Microsoft initiated supplemental servicing in November 2017, when it announced that Windows 10 version 1511, a November 2015 feature upgrade originally slated to drop off the support list on Oct. "Windows 10 version 1511, 1607, 17 will continue to receive monthly servicing updates at no-cost for a period of 6 months past the end of service dates," Microsoft stated in the fact sheet, referring to the standard 18-month support timetable. There, version 1803 was not flagged as one of those receiving the added support. The elimination of the additional six months, which Microsoft had taken to calling "supplemental servicing," was quietly revealed in online documentation, including the Windows 10 lifecycle fact sheet. Customers who licensed Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education received 24 months of support for those versions. That will be in contrast to the four previous feature upgrades, designated as 1511, 1607, 17 in Microsoft's yymm format. Īll editions of Windows 10 1803, aka the "April 2018 Update," will be provided security patches and other bug fixes until November 2019, or for the standard 18 months.
Microsoft ended a six-month support extension for enterprise users of Windows 10 with the feature upgrade released last week. What Redmond giveth, Redmond taketh away.
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