Microsoft’s Windows 10 Update Strategy Is Changing: Here’s What You Need to Know

Microsoft’s Windows 10 feature update strategy is pretty simple as it is right now, as the company typically releases two packs of improvements every year.

These updates roll out in the spring and in the fall based on a schedule that has received additional polishing but which has remained largely the same throughout the years:
  The spring update – RTM in March, public release in April or May The fall update – RTM in September, public release in October or November 
While Microsoft originally tried to launch two major feature updates every year, this idea eventually proved to be a risky game, simply because the company didn’t have enough time to test all the improvements thoroughly before pushing them to users.

And this struggle led to feature updates shipping with more or less critical issues – the best example here is the October 2018 Update which received the go-ahead with a bug that removed some users’ files stored in libraries.

It ...