Win10 version 1903 is likely the most-common version of Win10

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You know how I hate spewing AdDuplex numbers — they’re based on usage of a tiny sample of Microsoft Store apps, most of which you’ve never seen — bu
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What stood out to me is the small number of Insiders?

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Consider the genesis of the numbers: AdDuplex only counts hits on Store apps that they have wired for tracking. That really can skew things – although nobody knows how much, and in what direction.

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Every 200th user is Insider. 1:200 ratio is not that small to me, if you consider these are beta testers amongst public users.

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The low percentage shouldn’t be too surprising.  AdDuplex (and Microsoft’s own occasional proclamations of milestones) counts Windows 10 devices, not people.  A lot of people running Insider Preview builds have other computers.

For example, I have 5 Windows 10 devices between home and work.  Four of them are 1903, one of them is 20H1.

 

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I had several issues with 1903, from my SD card being wiped out and the drive letter changed to search from File Explorer only working sporadically. So, after a drive image I installed the released ISO of 1909, as an upgrade. Search now works again. I wonder how long it will take for me to find some new bugs.

There is no rhyme or reason why Windows 10 acts schizophrenic on some machines and buttery smooth on others. It’s Windows. It’s always had plenty of annoyances.

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You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din @GreatAndPowerfulTech! Moving to Win10 1909…

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WildBill: I had nothing to lose since I was already in the Insider Program. It failed to update to the latest “Windows Next”. So, I ran setup from the ISO of 1909. I was surprised to see it fixed my known issues. I was prepared to switch to Linux Mint, which does everything I need it to. But, since I work on Windows PC’s I try to use it on all of my non-Chromebook PC’s. I have since set the registry to return to Basic telemetry and ran Windows Privacy Dashboard and let it turn off everything. I have no plans to go back into the morass that is the Insider program.

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lesson learned: always upgrade (or install feature updates) thru ISO install method rather than thru windows update (aka in-place upgrade)

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Still holding on to 1803 win 10 home / metered connection.

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You have until December, unless you want to take your chances.

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bad idea to stay on 1803 after November 12, 2019 mr anonymous (unless you can somehow avoid checking for updates thru WU and/or disable auto updates thru 3rd party tools like StopUpdates10 or Windows Update Blocker on Win10 home) – once you check for updates after that date it’s “game over” for 1803 and will force upgrade to 1903, regardless of using metered connections or not)

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One of my customers is mainly on 1809. They still have a few computers on 1709, which I will have all on 1809 within a month or two.

Not sure when we will move to 1903, or if we will simply skip forward to 1909 (or whatever it is called).

We don’t get any apps from the Microsoft Store, so the 17 PCs that my customer has aren’t in that count.

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The claim may be true, but 1903 is not common around here. An HP desktop, well appointed and less than one year old, and an HP laptop about 14 months old, both Win 10 Version 1809 Home and 64 bit, were offered 1903 but the updater returned the error code 0xc1900223. No explanation, of course, as to why these two computers are spared the probably agony of 1903.

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Are you using DNS blacklists by any chance, like, for doing ad blocking?  You might be blocking servers that Windows Update needs to do Feature Updates.

 

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You should go to system log and find out why it crashed. Then go to answers.microsoft.com and look for event ID that you found in the log. See screenshot for more accurate info. Our computers remain 1809, we will skip 1903 completely.

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Still got 1803 on my computer. :3

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not for long once Tuesday 11/12/2019 comes along, the home & pro editions of 1803 go EOL after that date.
enterprise & education versions of 1803 get another year of updates until EOL on Nov. 2020

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I think this is because majority are Windows Home..

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while there are some others that use higher editions than Home like Professional and even Education editions (the Education edition was bundled with “consumer” multi-edition ESD/ISO downloads since 1703)

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Most “non-tech-savvy” users looks for the latest version of everything 🙂

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abbodi86 wrote:

Most “non-tech-savvy” users looks for the latest version of everything

Most “non-tech-savvy” users don’t use Microsoft’s Store so they don’t count.

Microsoft is the only one that knows the real numbers but they hide them. Everything else is speculations.

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