Each semi-annual feature update, like Fall Creators Update, is only serviced for 18 months from date of release. They've been saying this for a while but the lo

Each semi-annual feature update, like Fall Creators Update, is only serviced for 18 months from date of release. They've been saying this for a while but the longer support dates were still published. On February 1st, I was reading Windows lifecycle fact sheet which listed Windows 10's mainstream support would end in 2020 and extended support would end in 2025. [0] However, less than a day later, that page has been updated and is very different. Most versions of Windows 10 are now listed by version number (corresponding to the semi-annual updates released so far) with end of service dates 18 months after release. Only the LTSB editions (which aren't supposed to receive feature updates anyway) have mainstream and extended support dates (the 2015. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180127173937/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet https://web.archive.org/web/20180127173937/https://support.m... [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...