It's beginning to look a lot like October, everywhere you go. Take a look at the Windows 10, primed for release again

Microsoft last night loaded up the confus-o-canon once more with updates for those more cautious Windows Insiders in the Release Preview ring. The next update of Windows 10, aka 19H2, is due to land as a cumulative update rather than the Full Monty of last year. Our best guess is that it will drop in October, and this release …

[Pascal]

Think it's confusing now? Wait for 20H1...

The Semi-Annual Channel names Server builds using just year and month as a suffix.

"Windows Server 1903" this spring, "Windows Server 1909" coming up soon.

What's next? Oh yeah.

"Windows Server 2003" in about 6-7 months.

[katrinab]

Re: Think it's confusing now? Wait for 20H1...

Or maybe they will call it Windows Server XP?

[Anonymous Custard]

Yes Minister

Nice to see Sir Humphrey is still going great guns since his move from government to the private sector...

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it going to bring anything useful or is it just going to wast even more write cycles on my SSDs and do stupid things like change my login screen from 20/20 to myopia ?

[AMBxx]

More dark mode stuff.

More control panel stuff hidden away.

More UI inconsistencies.

MS seem to have lost the plot regarding what an OS is supposed to do.

[Barry Rueger]

Please, no!

Really there's only one question when a Windows update is released : what will it break on my wife's laptop?

She would happily disable all updates on the thus far reasonable assumption that a security breach will cause less damage than whatever Microsoft delivers.J

[dnicholas]

Wait

Isn't there seven circles of hell?

[N2]

unpaid testers

You imply there are more than one?