ADN Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 Today, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Insider Preview for PCs, bringing the build number to 17741. It doesn't contain much in the way of new features, but one thing that's changed is the version number. Redstone 5 is now officially Windows 10 version 1809. Windows 10 version numbers are based on the date that the update will be released to the general public. The first two digits are the year, and the last two are the month. 1809 means September 2018, so that's when you can expect Insiders to receive the final build for the update. Of course, that doesn't mean that's when it will be publicly released. Non-Insiders will probably see the update in October. While this doesn't really mean anything to the end user, it's a small milestone in the development cycle. After all, Redstone 5 has been developed under version 1803 for months. It will be interesting to see what the next version of Windows 10 will be. Microsoft is ditching Redstone codenames in favor of those that reflect the date, similar to version numbers, but a bit more vague. The next update will be 19H1, meaning the first half of 2019. It seems likely that that will eventually go to the same naming scheme that we all know, and will be called 1903. But for the time being, we finally have a version number for Redstone 5, which is 1809. Neowin.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 The one good thing about the yymm naming scheme is that it's correct planet-wide. Before, those of us outside North America had to translate "Fall" into "Autumn", and even worse, those of us in the Southern Hemisphere also had to flip the season to the opposite... "Fall" ---> "Autumn" ---> "Spring", or "Spring" ---> "Autumn". At least something Windows 10 has been improved, even though it's really only cosmetic. Now for the crazy 6-monthly update schedule, the poor monthly update quality, the obsession with forcing updates, changing user settings, reinstalling deleted apps, the ads, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 On 8/19/2018 at 10:03 PM, Karlston said: At least something Windows 10 has been improved, even though it's really only cosmetic. Now for the crazy 6-monthly update schedule, the poor monthly update quality, the obsession with forcing updates, changing user settings, reinstalling deleted apps, the ads, etc... All this stuff we touched based on 2 years ago bro , Now the privacy nuts at reddit are so hard up to find some dirt on windows 10 there posting post from 2 years ago in the privacy sub with 100s of comments in them like it was today's news and none them have sense enough to look at the sources data but Windows 10 was proved to be crap 2 years ago .. Windows 8.1 still got another 5 years of updates and Linux will always get free updates it will be around when desktops get phased out . 'This is Not Your Father's Microsoft' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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