From InfoWorld: Microsoft has scaled back its Windows 10 release schedule to two feature upgrades annually, not the three per year it once said was its plan.
The Redmond, Wash. company has hinted since November that it would cut back on the number of Windows 10 upgrades. That's when it began to refer to the schedule as "two to three times per year," rather than the solid three-times-a-year pace it had talked up before Windows 10's official release.
But in a presentation at the WinHEC technical conference in Taiwan last month, Microsoft provided its hardware partners and third-party developers a more definitive release cadence for Windows 10.
"Targeting twice per year with new capabilities," Microsoft said of Windows 10's servicing strategy in a slide presented by Chris Riggs, senior program manager, as part of a larger deck about "Windows as a Service" (WaaS) -- Microsoft's label for the new maintenance model.
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