El mes pasado, Microsoft desechó un experimento de cuatro años en el que proporcionaba múltiples actualizaciones a Windows Server cada año y, en su lugar, reutilizará la práctica de actualizar cada pocos años que había codificado durante décadas.
The move was the company's largest recall in Redmond, Washington. to date compared to Windows Fast Track Release and Upgrade, which it adopted first for the nameplate client software and later for Server. “Starting with Windows Server 2022, only one major release channel, the Long Term Servicing Channel, is available,” Microsoft explained in the Windows Server Release Tempo documentation. "With the long-term maintenance pipeline, a new major version of Windows Server is released every 2-3 years. Users are entitled to 5 years of Mainstream Support and 5 years of Extended Support." In the same document that named the Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) as the only version of Windows Server 2022, Microsoft also implied, without saying it outright, that the Semi-Annual Channel (SAC), the name of the release line, which delivered two updates per year, it's dead and gone for Server. Previously released SAC versions for Windows Server that are still supported, including 1909, 2004 and 20H2, will receive that support, Microsoft said. However, there will be no future versions of SAC.
SAC either
In June 2017, Microsoft announced that it would begin delivering SAC updates to Windows Server starting in the fall with the update designated 1709 in the company's then-standard yymm format. The idea, Microsoft said, was to synchronize the release rate of Windows Server with that of Windows 10 and Office 365, both of which have been updated twice a year as part of an accelerated rate that began in 2015 with the release of Windows 10. . "We had two sets of customers. One that wanted slow consistency and one that wanted continuous innovation," Microsoft said in a blog post four years ago, explaining why it offered both LTSC and SAC release schedules and support lifecycles. for Windows Server 2016. Apparently, these justifications no longer apply. Instead, customers will only be offered an LTSC version of Windows Server 2022, the next in line. As with other LTSC releases, Windows Server 2022 will be supported for a total of 10 years, with the first five as general support and the second five as extended support. While Microsoft has not revealed a definitive release date for Windows Server 2022, it has announced that it will release the update in the second half of this year. It is more likely to start in October or November; the last two versions of LTSC for Server were deployed during these months. (On August 17, Microsoft announced plans to host the digital "Windows Server Summit" on September 16. The release date will be among that day's announcements.)
With the move of the server, Microsoft closes the circle
By removing SAC releases, Microsoft has come full circle; returned Windows Server to its pre-2015 update cadence every three to four years. (Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022, three-year intervals; Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2016, four-year intervals.) The support has been formalized again at 10 years and only at 10 years; there are no longer 18-month SAC support cycles. And the old practice of only releasing new features at that three to four year rate has been restored, with LTSC releasing only, in other words, every two to three years, not, at least theoretically, all versions of. SAC that produce something new and shiny. . (This was never the reality of the SAC versions.) Microsoft has moved away from its famous Windows-as-a-Service (WaaS) in other ways, of course, including with the Windows client itself. With the announcement earlier this summer of Windows 11 and information about its new maintenance strategy, as well as maintenance mechanics, it's obvious that WaaS is an empty term for something Microsoft no longer offers. Even so, Windows 11 and its still current and supported predecessor, Windows 10, haven't gone as far as Windows Server in reverting in recent years. The Windows client, for example, will retain SAC versions (as well as LTSC versions) and support lifecycles of less than 10 years. (The longest SAC support cycle is 36 months, compared to 30 months for Windows Enterprise and Windows Education.) But if Microsoft applies a politic du dernier entré, first sorti avec Windows, alors le serveur, qui a suivi le client Windows dans WaaS et sera désormais le first sorti, peut être un signe avant-coureur de la façon dont le client change sur toute the line.
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