Ever since Windows 10 was released back in 2015
Microsoft has had it on a semi-annual update schedule where they would release a major feature update every spring and fall
Typically, but apparently that's gonna be changing this fall
Which is terrible news for me because all my major windows update videos always do really well
but for everyone else
Including you that's probably a good thing that they're changing the schedule and we're gonna go over how they're changing it and why it's good
I think so
how do we know that Microsoft is very likely going to be changing the update schedule for Windows 10 and the answer is that they've
Already changed how they release windows insider preview builds to insiders
Now if you didn't know the windows insider program
It's basically just like you can sign up to receive
Beta builds for Windows and then you kind of can give bug feedback and that sort of thing
You're kind of like a beta tester. I would not recommend that for your main build obviously because it can be very buggy
That's another story
But up until recently how it worked was there were two different speeds for a release in this insider build
There was the fast ring and the slow ring and what would happen is the fast ring would get the major
Update that usually is every six months. They would get that six months early
So the one that would be in the fall
They'd get it in the spring and then after all the initial really big bugs and stuff would work out
After about three months in the summer
Then the slow ring
would get the update like three months early before the final release and then the final release would be that fall but this time around
The insider fast ring got an update that was a full year in advance. And this is codenamed xx. H1
So xx xx half one and the slow ring actually got an update in the summer
That is only a minor update that is scheduled for the fall of this year
so the fast ring is getting this major update that's a year ahead of time and
completely skipping this minor update that's gonna be in the fall while the slow ring got this minor update that's gonna be released in the
Fall and it's codenamed 19 h2
So the second half of 2019 now I had heard rumors that Microsoft was going to be changing their
Semi-annual twice a year update schedule for Windows and for a while now and it does seem like with this implementation of this new
Release schedule for the insider that that is likely going to happen. So what's likely gonna happen?
It seems like is that there's gonna be every six months
They're still going to be an update
But one of them in the spring is going to be the major one
And then the one in the fall is going to be the minor feature update and then of course as usual
There's gonna be security patches spread throughout the year, and there's not going to be any delays on the security patches
Of course now, I do think that this would be a much better
Schedule I think it seems like twice a year might be too fast for Microsoft
I mean every time there's a major update it seems like there's something that goes wrong
I mean there was that catastrophe with some folders being completely deleted by the windows update
I mean that was like the worst I've ever heard of and then there's all these other bugs like I've installed updates
Where it would break steam it would break certain
Programs I was using like Adobe or like Camtasia screen recorder something would always break and that's why I do not
Update the major updates right away. I have my computer on like a sixty day delay every time and I still have not installed the
2019 may update on my main computer yet because of this. I'm thinking you know, it might break something
I don't really have any features that I absolutely need so I'm not gonna bother yet and I do think that this will allow a
Lot more bugs to be worked out if they're not releasing them so quickly
they'll have a little bit more time to work on the bugs and think things through and
I don't know how this is gonna come into play with the minor updates whether they're gonna be still feature updates
Just not as big ones or maybe the minor update will be like patches on the big one. I don't know
Hopefully they'll have that sorted out earlier than having to wait six months for the patches
But still though I do wonder how this is going to affect Microsoft's overall master plan of basically turning Windows into a service
They've kind of been doing this since the beginning of Windows 10
I believe that was the original plan was to make it so instead of releasing, you know
A major version of Windows every five years or so
They would just kind of
Continuously improve it and I think that still could be on track with this new
major update once a year and then a minor update every six months, but it does seem like
This is gonna be more like their traditional service pack update schedule that they had before Windows 10 like with Windows 7
There is like a couple service packs for each one
and if it does have a five year shelf life in the first place for the previous versions then you know
Every year is not so far off every two years
So it's almost kind of like they're just going back to what they were doing before
So maybe they'll have just a couple major major features and then they'll still have a good number of features
But still kind of call it a minor update and I also think the whole difference between a major and minor update has to do
with how long it takes to install and the complications involve installing because as you know,
When you install one of the major updates it typically requires you to spend more time
Restarting it and it takes longer to install whereas
I believe these minor updates are gonna be more like a quick install that you don't even really notice
So we'll have to see how that plays out. Of course
I am a bit concerned that even if they do have more time to spend on these updates
Are they gonna even use that extra time to properly get all the bugs out or is it just gonna be even worse?
every year where they don't properly bug fix everything and then you'll end up just having
Twice as many bugs that are twice as big because they compressed releasing them all at once. I don't know
Hopefully that's not the case, but you never know with Microsoft in any case
I just wanted to give you guys this update so in the next couple months if you see hey
I wonder if the next big Windows updates gonna have anything cool then you might be having to wait a little bit longer and of
Course, I'll probably still make updates on Windows every six months in the case that they release some stuff. That's pretty cool
Even if it's not a major update if it's still worth talking about I'll still make a video about it
So let me know what you think of this do Windows updates usually break your computer
Do they usually work fine with no problems?
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