Windows 10: Did Microsoft reveal Windows 10 21H1's release date accidentally?

Microsoft is working on the next feature update for its Windows 10 operating system. The company will release two feature updates in 2021 for the operating system, but plans to reverse the order in which these get released. In the previous two years, Microsoft released the main update of the year in the first half and a lighter follow-up update in the second half.

Starting in 2021, Microsoft will reverse the order and release a lighter update in the first half and the major update in the second half. The company has not revealed when the first update of 2021 will become available.

If you check the release month of the first feature update for Windows 10 of the past two years, you will notice that both were released in the month of May.

Windows 10 version 1903 was released on May 21, 2019, and Windows 10 version 2004 was released on May 28, 2020. Before that, the first updates of the year were released in the month of April.

Considering that there is a shift in the release order in 2021, some commenters assumed that Windows 10 version 21H1 could be released earlier than usual because of its minor status.

Our colleagues over at Windows Latest discovered a Chromium commit in which a Microsoft employee may have revealed the actual month of release.

According to that post, Windows 10 21H1 may be released in June 2021. The post appears to have been edited as the current version does not contain the release month anymore.



Windows Latest captured a screenshot of the message. The wording of the original message was the following according to that screen capture:

The Windows Release coming out this June 2021 has a new API that can disable KTM exploits.
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The edited message does not mention a release month anymore:

An upcoming Windows Release has a new API that can disable KTM exploits.
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A June 2021 release date is not out of the question, considering that it could very well mean an early June 2021 release date.

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Dates set for Windows Vista releases

Microsoft has released a list of dates for all major releases of Windows Vista, including the release date next year:

-Beta 2: December 2nd 2005
-RC 0: April 19th 2006
-RC 1: June 28th 2006
-RTM (Release to Manufacturing, also known as "going gold"): August 6th 2006
-Release date: November 15th 2006

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft will make all these dates, but that would be a Microsoft first.

All the details at TweakPC (de).

 

Windows 10 Release Date Announced

Do you have a source to back that up because it sounds like speculation.


Dunno about anyone else but I've seen nothing on MSDN or TN to suggest single machine license. What purpose would it serve when the OS is free?
Hence why VL and Enterprise are not part of the offer I imagine..... more likely to be done the way Office 365 is imho, a subscription tied to an account......

 

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) Release Dates

The guys over at Neowin.net have managed to get their hands on the internal schedule for the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3.

• April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP
• April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and TechNet subscribers
• April 29, 2008: Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center
• June 10, 2008: Automatic Updates

Source: Neowin.net