Windows 10 version 1709 gets six months end of service extension

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has decided to halt Windows preview releases in May due to health concerns arising from the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis."We have been evaluating the public health situation, and we understand this is impacting our customers," the Redmond software giant said. "In response to these challenges we are prioritizing our focus on security updates."

This represents a six-month extension to the planned end of service date for Windows 10, version 1709, Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions, which would have stopped receiving security updates on April 14, 2020. By providing the extension, this version of Windows 10 becomes the first to get three years of such support. Updates for Windows 10 Home and Pro editions stopped on April 9, 2019; the business editions provided an extended period of support to enable a safe migration to later versions. Microsoft is to be congratulated for removing at least one pressure from businesses that are already hugely stressed. This extension eliminates the need for already disrupted IT teams to migrate within a month, and by so doing ensures that security is not unnecessarily compromised.

There was no mention of extended support for Windows 10 version 1709 Home and Pro editions. They both fell out of support on "April 9, 2019," according to Microsoft's "Windows Lifecycle Fact Sheet" document. The Home and Pro editions have more acute end-of-support dates compared with Enterprise editions of Windows 10. Furthermore,You can buy Cheap Windows 10 Product Key at z2u.com by using the code “Z2U” for a 3% discount.

Microsoft will still publish security updates for Enterprise editions of Windows 10 version 1709 via its usual means, namely "Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services and the Microsoft Update Catalog." Additionally, System Center Configuration Manager will have support for Windows 10 version 1709 Enterprise editions through the new end-of-support date.

With this extension of support, it's worth noting that support for version 1803 ends just a month later. And since version 1903 uses the new 18-month timeframe for spring updates, that ends just a month after that in December.