What is new for Windows 10 May 2019 Update version 1903

Rocky · 17 May 2019

OldOzzie said:

Patch Tuesday, Good Friday or even Black Saturday......as long as there's no surprises like there was with 1809 , then i'll be content.

1809 worked perfectly for well over 97% of all computers, the problem was very rare but serious enough for Microsoft to address. Was your system one of the very few that the bug hit?

OldOzzie · 17 May 2019

Rocky said:

1809 worked perfectly for well over 97% of all computers, the problem was very rare but serious enough for Microsoft to address. Was your system one of the very few that the bug hit?

It was my father's pc that suffered some data loss. It wasn't data that was ultra critical, but enough to create extra work for him. On the plus side, it convinced him to purchase the NAS box i'd been talking about for the last year or so.

Bree · 17 May 2019

OldOzzie said:

Patch Tuesday, Good Friday or even Black Saturday......as long as there's no surprises like there was with 1809 , then i'll be content.

Rocky said:

1809 worked perfectly for well over 97% of all computers, the problem was very rare but serious enough for Microsoft to address...

1809 worked perfectly for me from the day it was (first) released at the beginning of October. The problem that led to it being withdrawn and relaunched in November can arguably be put down to Microsoft's bizarre decision to skip testing 1809 in the Insider Release Preview Ring before the first abortive launch.

MS seem to have learned their lesson. 1903 has spent the last month in the Release Preview Ring so should have been thoroughly tested by the time it is launched.

bbinnard · 17 May 2019

See My saga of upgrading from Ver. 1809 to 1903 for my story about makeing the 1809 ==> 1903 update.

magilla · 17 May 2019

Bree said:

1809 worked perfectly for me from the day it was (first) released at the beginning of October. The problem that led to it being withdrawn and relaunched in November can arguably be put down to Microsoft's bizarre decision to skip testing 1809 in the Insider Release Preview Ring before the first abortive launch.

MS seem to have learned their lesson. 1903 has spent the last month in the Release Preview Ring so should have been thoroughly tested by the time it is launched.

Sure hope so, Bree.

Wynona · 17 May 2019

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
OK but if you do wait till it's officially available I would expect the Ms servers to be massively overloaded judging by past experiences with Windows new releases / major updates.

There's nothing to lose by trying current 19H1 (1903) -- I don't expect there to be significant changes when it's RTM'd

Cheers
jimbo

I have the latest via Release Preview, Jimbo. And when Microsoft announces its availability, I'll probably already have it installed through RP.

Wynona · 17 May 2019

larc919 said:

I'm thinking the official 1903 release will likely be 18362.30 and there will be a CU available once it's installed.

Nah. I'm on Insider RP and I'm up to .113, Larc.

Wynona · 17 May 2019

Bree said:

1809 worked perfectly for me from the day it was (first) released at the beginning of October. The problem that led to it being withdrawn and relaunched in November can arguably be put down to Microsoft's bizarre decision to skip testing 1809 in the Insider Release Preview Ring before the first abortive launch.

MS seem to have learned their lesson. 1903 has spent the last month in the Release Preview Ring so should have been thoroughly tested by the time it is launched.

And absolutely!

bagavan · 17 May 2019

Wynona said:

Nah. I'm on Insider RP and I'm up to .113, Larc.

Will this be the final release build?

Wynona · 17 May 2019

bagavan said:

Will this be the final release build?

Probably not. Could be one or two more Cumulative Updates . . . or three . . . only the Shadow knows for sure . . .