

And in a relatively new wrinkle, the end-of-service date (the date when Microsoft stops supplying updates for a version) has a major impact on when feature updates are automatically installed. This is the most important variable of all.Īs it has since the dawn of the Windows 10 era, Microsoft reserves its full set of update management features for business editions. Which edition of Windows 10 are you running? When will Microsoft offer you a new feature update? When should you install that update? Before you can solve either problem, you need to calculate several variables. That's no longer true unfortunately the formula for feature updates now feels more like a midterm exam in differential calculus.

The rules and tools for controlling these big feature updates used to be fairly simple. Those are all good questions without easy answers. Should you install the update, or should you wait? What happens if you wait too long? And why did the options to defer updates disappear from Windows 10 Settings? Microsoft's latest Windows 10 feature update is now available to the public.
