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posted by martyb on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-the-hurry? dept.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update users are being forced to upgrade – ready or not

Microsoft has begun the process of herding those still running the Windows 10 October 2018 Update into upgrading to the most recent November 2019 Update.

The same thing has already happened to those running the April 2018 Update, and that previous forced upgrade scheme kicked off in July (instigating automatic upgrades to the May 2019 Update, which of course was the most recent version of Windows 10 at the time).

[...] So this is the second time Microsoft has wielded an upgrade cattle prod, effectively, and the reason for doing so is security – because the end of service date for the update in question is on the horizon. Users must therefore upgrade, or face missing out on vital security patches.

However, the timeframe in which Microsoft is pushing these mandatory upgrades is well in advance of what the company initially announced. The official stance remains that the rollout process will be started “several months in advance of the end of service date to provide adequate time for a smooth update process”.

Which is fair enough, but the end of support deadline for the October 2018 Update is May 12, 2020, so that’s actually still over five months away – a little more than ‘several months’ in our books.


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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday December 10 2019, @03:43PM

    by driverless (4770) on Tuesday December 10 2019, @03:43PM (#930608)

    There's actually a good solution to this given in the story just before this one [soylentnews.org]. Problem is will they be able to process 144,000 people [statista.com] at once?

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