As planned, Microsoft will release Windows 11 LTSC in the final stage of Windows 10 support, which will happen in almost exactly two and a half years, in October 2025, the long-scheduled farewell date. However, not all Windows 10 users will have to leave the system at that point.
Specifically, Windows 10 users will be able to get by with it until the end of 2027, the year in which extended support ends for the latest version of Windows 10 LTSC, released in October 2021 and with five years of guaranteed updates. That is what the acronym LTSC consists of and, as you can read in the headline, the next one is Windows 11. Which one if not.
Just yesterday, in fact, we told you that Windows 10 will no longer have new versions, something that was perhaps intuited in a different way than how it will happen, but that was taken for granted. That is to say, with Windows 11 already well rolled and despite the regrets, and there are a few when we talk about Windows 11, the development of Windows 10 would be reduced to mere maintenance.
And so it will be, with the addition that you will not receive more versions as such or new features, but maintenance updates (security patches, corrections and little else). Ergo, Windows 10 22H2, the version released by Microsoft last October, will be the last in the series, as well as the last installation image to be distributed.
Coming back with Windows 11 LTSC: what is it all about? And when will it be released? Windows LTSC (Long-Term Servicing Channel) It is a version of Windows aimed at the professional sector, with a particularity, as its acronym indicates: extended support for five years, a period during which this version does not receive new features that may pose a risk to the stability of the system, but rather security patches. and corrections.
In this sense, there will not be many differences between what will happen to Windows 10 and the next Windows 11 LTSC, except for the fact that this version has a specific purpose, in addition to being a limited version in its target audience with two unique editions, Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSCwhich will be available from the second half of 2024, although they can already be tested through the GA channel of Windows 11 22H2.
This Windows LTSC is certainly not a version for ordinary users of the Microsoft operating system, but it is very common in the professional market, in the segment of Linux distributions for professionals, but also with applications (it is equally common to find with this type of versions of web browsers).
