Microsoft has said there won't be any more updates to Windows 10 for the rest of the year, as the company apparently looks to retire for the holidays. In a support note, Microsoft told Windows 10 users not to expect Windows 10 preview updates in December, and that full service will resume in January 2021. The company says the pause will also help users. users and IT administrators to get a much-needed break over the holiday season after a crazy year for IT teams tasked with overcoming the need for remote work during the pandemic.
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"Due to minimal operations during the holidays and the upcoming Western New Year, there will be no preview release for December 2020. Monthly service will resume with security releases starting in January 2021," the note reads. . This appears to include the usual monthly batch of Patch Tuesday security updates, suggesting that Microsoft doesn't expect any issues to emerge in the coming weeks. The November Patch Tuesday release drew attention earlier this month for its particularly long list of updates, which now seems to have been explained by this latest news. Microsoft issued a similar pause in March, as IT teams and administrators around the world began to understand the scale of the challenge of keeping employees online as the pandemic unfolded. The pause may help give Microsoft more time to fix some of the issues users have been experiencing with the company's latest major update: Windows 10 20H2. Recent reports have pointed out that the recently released Windows 10 Cumulative Update for November is problematic in terms of installation failures for some users, and there are some other bugs as well. Via ZDNet