These machines will get security and bugfix updates through Windows Update, but that’s it. LTSB Gets Security Updates for 10 Years, Without Feature Updatesīecause the LTSB version is designed for stability, it’s updated very differently from other builds of Windows 10. Microsoft will never publish a feature update like the Anniversary Update or November Update for Windows 10 LTSB. A PC operating medical equipment in a hospital room doesn’t need new Cortana updates. That’s what Windows 10 LTSB–the “Long Term Servicing Branch”–is for, and it’s only available for the Enterprise edition of Windows 10. Critical infrastructure like ATMs, medical equipment, and PCs that control machines on a factory floor don’t need whizbang features, they need long term stability and few updates that will potentially break things. It’s like the stable, consumer branch–but slower moving.īut businesses don’t want all their PCs to constantly get big updates, even if they are delayed a few months. This branch will only get new builds of Windows 10, like the Anniversary Preview, a few months after they’ve been tested on the “Current Branch”. Windows 10 Professional users have the option to “ Defer Upgrades“, which puts them on the “Current Branch for Business”.

Most Windows PCs are on the “Current Branch”, which is considered the stable branch. The most unstable branch is the Insider Preview version of Windows 10. There are several “branches” of Windows 10.

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LTSB Is the Slowest Moving Branch of Windows 10

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