You may have received the upgrade to Win10 1803 last night

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Just a quick note. Those of you running Win10 version 1703 or 1709 who have “feature update deferral” set to 120 days should see 1803 in your Windows
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PhotM, zero2dash

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That’s super unfortunate timing to spend a couple hours without a machine, considering 1809 is still expected to re-release any day now…

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True, but I expect most people to dodge 1809 until we get more experience with it.

You can look at this as a feature, by the way. If you’re set to 120 days deferral, you get upgraded to 1803 today and won’t need to worry about 1809 for months.

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As Woody said, I won’t see 1809 until probably the middle of next year, long after 1903 has been released. By that time, 1809 should be stable. That’s why I like the 120 day deferral – it feels long enough to let the dust settle, without being too far behind.

The update from 1709 to 1803 took 20 minutes at most, btw.

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Karlston

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zero2dash wrote:

The update from 1709 to 1803 took 20 minutes at most, btw.

That’s more ore less what I encountered a month or so ago just as a quick test before nuking w10 to see how well the ‘feature upgrade’ worked. (usually I do a fresh installation on bare metal)

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In case people are wondering why/where the ‘120 days’ figure comes from, I’m following this for ‘Broad deployment’: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-deployment-rings-windows-10-updates

The update took maybe 15-20 minutes on all 3 of my machines (mix of Intel CPU’s with SSD’s) from start to finish.

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