When Windows 11 arrives this holiday season, there is going to be a ton of changes. It looks totally different, supports Android apps, and more. There are also changes coming to how Windows 11 is updated and how it’s supported, so just in case you were worried about it, you’ll be pleased to know that there will be a Windows 11 Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) version.
Good news for people not interested in Microsoft’s update schedule.
I see no good news. I want to start using W11 LTSC right away (when W11 gets released) and it looks like it’ll be available only around 2025.
Time to fix bugs first, I see good news there. Please remember that if Windows 8 was considered screwed and Windows 11 good, then Windows 11…
This cadence of good/bad releases has always been utter BS/urban myth and nothing else.
W11 is W10 with a facelift. There’s not too much MS could have f’ed up with. Lastly W10 received a LTSC release almost immediately, so this delay looks quite artificial only to save on support/maintenance costs. Microsoft doesn’t want to support too many LTSC releases – it’s expensive.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/
People do actually pay for an Enterprise edition, so, no, it’s not expensive, it’s backed up with enterprise plans and with no added functionalities, it’s even cheaper since it’s “just” security updates that are already provided for all Window 10/11 versions.
I was talking about Microsoft – it’s expensive for them to release more LTSC releases than absolutely necessary.
@Artem
LTSC is just bog standard Enterprise with no updates (except security) for five years. So it costs MS nothing extra to provide it.
@Brisvegas
Looks like you know zero about development and particularly the maintenance of Windows inside Microsoft.
LTSC is _not_ Enterprise, it’s a separate edition. There’s Enterprise and there’s Enterprise_LTSC – they are different trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions
@Artem.
Absolute rubbish. I’m using LTSC now. It is just is just a FROZEN (five years) version of Enterprise with no updates except security patches. The CURRENT version was released on 14 Spetember 2018.
Whether it is a cadence or not IMO is irrelevant. ME, Vista and 8 were crap.
It is Microsoft. They fuck everything up. It is really easy for them to screw up Windows 11 when it’s just “just a facelift, even though that in itself is BS. Look how beyond a mess Windows 10 is as it is.
Vista was “crap” because Microsoft suddenly raised HW requirements four-fold. On sufficiently fast PCs with enough RAM it worked just fine.
ME was crap? Compared to what? 95, 98/SE, ME were all utter crap – unstable and crashy as hell. Windows 2000 was great.
Again, myths and other crap.
I cannot work up any level of excitement for any Microsoft Windows news. The main reason is Microsoft management fleing its muscles and volunteering my computers for the scrapyard. The second main reason is Microsoft news is boring at best or an announcement they are meddling something else into the ground. Putting “windows 11 forced obsolescence” ( or windows 11 “Planned obsolescence”) into Google throws up a lot of opinion the nod along rah rah media aren’t reporting.
> management fleing its muscles [meaning engineers who know what they’re doing?]
“fleeing” it’s muscles? Typo or pun? (Or both)