Microsoft’s latest update for its ageing OS due to hit Soon™
The Windows 10 May 2019 Update is inbound, but not before it has spent a bit more time in the hands of testers excluded from the disastrous October 2018 Update.
Microsoft is taking its time with this one. It was widely expected to be given the April 2019 Update moniker, but now looks like Windows fans can expect to see it in May.
Maybe.
This time around, the gang is “taking further steps to be confident in the quality of the May 2019 Update” by flinging the code at the Release Preview ring of the Windows Insider programme next week to shake out any issues before commercial customers get their hands on it towards the end of the month.
This is in stark contrast to the position taken prior to the launch of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, where additional testing in the Release Preview ring was deemed unnecessary.
Festooned with bugs, including one that deleted user data, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update – aka The Update of the Damned – turned out to be a distressing experience for some.
The May 2019 Update is going to spend “increased time” lurking in Release Preview, and Microsoft intends to chow down on its own dog food with employees encouraged to put the code on their own personal devices.
