Company planning automatic updates on old Windows versions
Back in 2014 when the software giant discontinued Windows XP, the 2001 operating system was still running on some 25 percent of the PCs worldwide. And now, more than five years since it went dark, it has a market share of more than 2 percent.
History is set to repeat with the end-of-support of Windows 7 in January 2020, but also when older Windows 10 versions reach their retirement date.
Because this happens every six months, as per Microsoft’s own schedule, the company needs to make sure that users update to the latest Windows 10 version to continue to receive updates.
With the approaching Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) set for November 12,2019, Microsoft is embracing a completely different approach.
The May 2019 Update, which is the latest stable version of Windows 10, will be pushed to devices running Windows 10 April 2018 Update and older automatically via Windows Update. This means Windows Update will download all the necessary files all by itself in the background and then prompt for a restart when it’s ready to initiate the update to Windows 10 version 1903.
