Microsoft to push Windows 10 20H2 to PCs with end-of-service status

Microsoft is going to push the October Update of Windows 10 to more PCs. The company plans to use machine learning to automatically deploy Windows 10 20H2 to devices that currently run on outdated software.

The new version of the operating system will be sent to computers in “the coming weeks or months.” Windows 10 20H2, which was released last October, will then be sent to computers running Windows versions that have reached or will soon reach end-of-service status, Microsoft writes. According to a recently updated schedule, it is specifically about Windows 10 1909, which will reach that status from May 11 this year. This applies to the Home, Pro, Pro Education and Pro Workstation variants of the OS. For Windows 10 Enterprise, Education or IoT Enterprise, this concerns operating systems that are still on version 1809. Older versions of Windows 10 are also updated if it turns out that users are still on them.

Microsoft says users can force the update to 20H2 by clicking Check for updates in Windows Update themselves. The OS will then be updated to the October Update, the most recent major update to Windows 10. In addition, the company will use ‘machine learning techniques’ to identify computers and ensure an ‘intelligent rollout’. In practice, this means that computers are updated when users are not using them, so that they do not suffer from a sudden update.