Microsoft is planning to release its next Windows 10 update in April. The software giant hasn’t officially revealed its name, but the company is planning to label it the Spring Creators Update. Microsoft has, however, revealed the Spring Creators Update will be released in April. In an update to a blog post today, Microsoft provides a Windows 10 overview that includes the April release date, and plans to support the OS version until October 2019.
Microsoft is now planning to finalize Windows 10 Spring Creators Update by the end of next week, and the company typically ships it to consumers a few weeks later. Windows 10 Spring Creators Update will include new features like Timeline, HDR support, improved DPI support, and Fluent Design changes to the overall design of the operating system. Microsoft has now started testing its next Windows 10 update, codenamed Redstone 5. We don’t know the major features of this future update just yet, but tabs will be included in File Explorer and other Windows apps in the upcoming update.
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"Spring Creators Update"… These friendly update names are super creative… Way to go Microsoft.
By aaron44126 on 03.13.18 11:44am
I just got my "Fall Creators Update" last week. For those keeping score at home, it’s March.
¯\(ツ)/¯
By Jrod3737 on 03.13.18 11:58am
That’s a good thing; their compatibility checks won’t update unless they have confidence it won’t destroy your computer. Remember each bi-annual windows update is actually a completely new version of windows, installed over your previous one. They aren’t distributed as patches.
You probably have some weird hardware installed that they weren’t sure would work until recently.
By Rodalpho on 03.13.18 12:17pm
What’s worse, the "Creators Update" was released last Spring. So in addition to a "Fall Creators Update", there’s a Spring "Creators Update" and a "Spring Creators Update". It’s like a worst-case scenario of bad naming.
By LinkTiger on 03.13.18 12:03pm
Will this trend continue where every Windows 10 release article will talk about what’s going to come in the ‘next’ update. I think we will never feel like we are using a ‘completed’ release.
By srik on 03.13.18 12:05pm
Yes. Don’t see why that’s necessarily a negative. I like that their public roadmap stretches at least 6 months ahead.
By Rodalpho on 03.13.18 12:14pm
Definitely agree that it’s good to see exciting features lined up when the other competing platform has almost been neglected and gets a few token features each year.
But I can’t help but feel like wishing for the next version to come soon (with improved features) rather than enjoy the new update. For e.g., Sets are cool but now that I know Timeline will come soon it washes away the excitement for Sets a bit. Maybe I’m not explaining it right
I also feel they should alternate between new features and adding polish with each release
By srik on 03.20.18 2:25am
Just like no smart phone will ever have a complete release.
By MJ77 on 03.14.18 4:00am
Heh, my cell phone OS is complete, they stopped updating it years ago.
By sadsteve on 03.14.18 9:29am
Microsoft is really messing up on marketing here. They should pick at least one marquee feature for each bi-annual release and focus on that. This should be the "Windows 10 Timeline Update", and they should be talking about how cool the timeline is, and how it helps you work on multiple computers seamlessly. As is, nobody gives a crap. It’s just another forced reboot.
Also, it isn’t a big deal, but I find it annoying that they always miss their release month. This is the 1803 update, but it’s being released in 1804. 1709 released in 1710, 1703 in 1704, etc. Just rename them already!
By Rodalpho on 03.13.18 12:11pm
I really don’t like this "Windows as a service" model.
I have seen perfectly good, working computers have to be replaced because some piece of hardware is no longer supported, or because the manufacturer doesn’t want to release a new driver for a piece of hardware.
This is a complete waste of resources, time and energy.
It used to be that, if you didn’t want the new version of Windows, you just didn’t purchase it. Especially if you knew of a problem between the new version and your hardware. Eventually, you might install it after all the bugs were worked out, or you may not if the fault preventing you from purchasing was never addressed.
Now, this risk is happening twice a year.Twice a year where you have to grab your balls and prey to the powers that be that you computer will still function after this huge update that Microsoft will not let you opt out of.
However, I do thank them for letting us opt out of driver updates. This was really causing a problem on my own personal system. The drivers they were pushing were causing problems. Lucky I was able to downgrade the drivers, and shut off driver updates.
Of course, all this is to offer a convenience for Microsoft, not for consumers.
The only good thing to come out of this is that less people are showing up with multiple driver updater programs on their computers. This software is next to useless (more so now that Windows 10 automatically updates drivers for most people anyway), but you’re lucky if you manage to get away without a virus, or malware, or adware or some type of useless software by just daring to install their trash. In fact, most of this junks is given away for free because they know people wouldn’t be willing to pay for it.
From where I’m sitting, the "computing experience" with Windows is getting worse, not better. At least, worse in some ways, perhaps better in some others…which cancel each other out, so Windows really is not improving much because for Microsoft it’s two steps forward, and one step back.
By Mergatroid Mania on 03.13.18 1:07pm
Windows 10>Windows 8 = Windows 7>Windows Vista>Windows XP>>>>>>all other windows.
By Cols714 on 03.13.18 5:58pm
The way I see it, forced updates beats unforced updates. As someone who has worked in IT support for 15 years, I’m painfully aware that Joe Public will not update their OS if they can help it. You only have to look at the number of systems out there still running Windows XP to get an idea of this. It’s a security nightmare and the only way to stop it is either to educate users (good luck) or make updating mandatory.
I’d rather fix a botched update caused by driver issues than try and recover corrupted/virus infested/ransomware-encrypted data.
Microsoft does stagger updates for hardware with known incompatibilities. I’ve got a Razer laptop that only recently got the fall update because Razer hadn’t published new drivers.
By Imrhien on 03.13.18 7:30pm
It does have annoyances, however. My office machine is still at 1607, and every day Windows tries to Creators itself. Every day, it starts the process, eating loads of CPU and disc, completes its preinstall checks and then takes my focus away from what I’m doing to inform me that it can’t upgrade while I’m still using the office-mandated and locked down version of McAfee disc encryption, and could I please fix this.
Then, 24 hours later, it tries again, in the hope that I’ve done something in the meantime, but maybe just forgot to manually launch the upgrade afterwards.
Every day.
By iainl7 on 03.14.18 5:14am
On one hand, I’m pretty positive about using Windows 10.
But on the other, it totally f*ck up my startmenu at the "Fall Creators Update". On all my computers (2 work stations, 1 gaming pc, 1 laptop, 1 tablet) updates at different weeks, they all got the startmenu completely reset to default layout. And all kinds of rubbish tiles were installed, e.g. pinball, minecraft, racing game, random apps.
I tried export startmenu layout through powershell. Guess what, you can’t import back the settings xml unless it’s for a new user account !
I really don’t like MS becoming more and more aggressive about feature updates. They install and remove whatever they want, even for sponsor advertisement stuffs.
You never know when u wake up with a reboot-ed pc and things are changed unwillingly.
By SubzeroDev on 03.13.18 9:13pm
This "(Season) Creators Update" naming is just bad taste. What’s much worse is they kept using Redstone as their code name for a fifth time now.
This company really have severe problem in naming things and marketing
By PrinceKickster on 03.14.18 6:55am
With all this ‘windows as a service’ and excess tracking I’ve set my systems up as dual boot. Linux as my main OS and Windows 10 for games. Almost all the applications I used under Windows are available under Linux. And with Linux, I have control of my computer again.
By sadsteve on 03.14.18 9:40am