Windows 10 October 2018 Update is finally ready for volume distribution

About six months after the first debut of Windows 10 October 2018 Updat and in the public channel, the latest "major" update of Microsoft's operating system is finally ready for mass distribution . The developer has in fact declared that the 1809 version of Windows 10 is ready to be delivered to the vast majority of customers, not only for the consumer market, but also for the enterprise.

Microsoft finalized the October update code last September, beginning the roll-out on October 2nd 2018 . However, the update was soon removed from the update channels , as was the Windows Server 2019/1809 version, due to a bug that caused data loss in some circumstances and for some users. It was soon after discovered that the update also had problems in managing .zip files .

Windows 10 October 2018 Update was then released again in mid-November, with a much more careful approach than the first launch. The roll-out was slow and gradual, and the start of the new update period was updated to November 13, both for the Semi-Annual Channel and for the Long-Term Servicing Channel.

Recently Microsoft announced that on Windows 10 1903 the Semi-Annual Channel Targeted (SAC-T), used by some companies, will be discontinued, with the aim of making the release of updates for Windows 10 and Office 365 more consistent. new short post in which we read that "Windows 10 version 1809 has passed to the extended distribution phase" Microsoft has also specified that it will continue to "communicate the passage from the targeted development phase to the extended phase also for future releases" .

With the second release of the October update, and following the issues raised on the update, Microsoft had promised changes in the update process in order to improve the quality of the so-called feature updates. At the moment, however, we are approaching the finalization of Windows 10 1903 (19H1) and no news have been announced in this regard. The next update, according to traditional timing, should arrive in April.