14 DAY TRIAL // If you’ve never heard of Windows 10 19H2, you’re not alone. The Windows 10 feature update that is supposed to ship in the fall of this year is yet to reach the Windows Insider program, even though we’re only a couple of months away from the RTM sign-off date.
As per Microsoft’s schedule, the fall feature update for Windows 10 is finalized in September and released in October.
The public testing, which comes down to preview builds shipped to Windows insiders, typically starts in the spring, so Microsoft has enough time to add new features, collect feedback, use it to refine the update, and then push it to production devices.
This was the plan for 19H2 as well, with Microsoft saying several months ago that “we will begin releasing 19H2 bits to insiders later this spring after we get 19H2 nearly finished and read.”
The spring is already over, 19H1 is available for all seekers on Windows Update, and 19H2 is still nowhere to be seen.
“Call it a delay if you want”
Brandon LeBlanc, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the Windows Insider Program Team in WDG, says Microsoft actually has a different definition of “spring.”
“Our definition of "spring" doesn't necessarily match to exactly when spring ends and summer begins. It'll happen when we're ready. We're not operating against a deadline. Call it a "delay" if you want,” he said in a tweet a few hours ago.
“We're not changing the release cadence of Windows and we'll have a point to ship 19H2. 20H1 is a ways off still we just needed a head start,” he said in a follow-up tweet.
Brandon LeBlanc also claims Windows 10 19H2 is still coming.
“I am giving you the most open and transparent response I can give - we're seriously working on getting all our eggs in one basket for 19H2 and we'll communicate when that's done. This isn't meant to be "corp speak". It's the truth,” he says.
Rumors that have been swirling around the web in the last few months claimed Windows 10 19H2 could end up being a little more than a service pack. And with the update still nowhere to be seen for insiders, there is as very big change this is true.