Microsoft ends support for three versions of Windows 10 at once

Microsoft stopped supporting three versions of the Windows 10 operating system on May 11, 2021. We‘re mostly talking about Windows 10 version 1909, a major fall operating system update released by Microsoft in November 2019.

– Windows 10 Home and Pro. Enterprise and Education 1909 editions of Enterprise and Education will receive security updates for another year Regular users of Windows 10 Home and Pro versions 1909 received the latest update yesterday as part of the mandatory traditional monthly patch. Tuesday for the Windows 10 operating system.

Additionally, support for Windows 10 1803 and 1809 major releases ended in Spring and Fall 2018. Support for consumer versions of this operating system was discontinued some time ago, but the corporate variations have continued to receive updates for now. Now the Enterprise and Education variants from 1803 and 1809 have also reached the end of their useful life.

The only exception is the Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) t, which Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC Version 1809 users will continue to receive updates through. According to AdDuplex statistics, at the end of April 2021, Windows 10 1909 took third place in the prevalence of different versions of the Windows 10 operating system with a share of 11.1% behind the latest Windows 10 2004 and Windows 10 20H2. Put simply, roughly one in ten Windows 10 PCs in the world is running version 1909.