Microsoft makes Windows 10 1903 available on MSDN

On April 18, a few tech professionals started noticing that Microsoft had made its Windows 10 1903/May 2019 Update release on MSDN for download. If Microsoft hadn’t modified its Windows 10 servicing cadence a pair of weeks ago, this would be enterprise as standard. But, in early April, Microsoft officials said the plan was to make Windows 10 1903/May Update available to purchasers and enterprise users starting in overdue May, now not in mid-April. From Microsoft’s April four blog publish approximately plans to trade the Windows 10 update revel in within the name of improved pleasant:

“Our industrial clients can begin their centered deployments in overdue May so that one can mark the start of the 18-month servicing length for Windows 10, model 1903 inside the Semi-Annual Channel. We endorse IT directors to start validating the apps, gadgets, and infrastructure utilized by their companies at that point to make sure that they work properly with this launch before widely deploying. The May 2019 Update can be available in late May through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Windows Update for Business, the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) for phased deployment using System Center Configuration Manager or different systems control software.”

Microsoft’s plans for 1903 turned into offering the “RTM” bits longer to bake in the Windows Insider Release Preview ring, as well as interior Microsoft, its OEM, and ISV companions earlier than making the brand new bits available to mainstream customers. Microsoft pushed out the Windows 10 1903/May Update bits to Insider testers in Release Preview on April 8.

Officials said in advance this month that business clients might be capable of starting trying out the commercially available 1903/May update internally in overdue May. Microsoft could use the past due May date while it starts rollout because of the beginning of the 18-month guide period for Windows 10 1903.

Yet now, on April 18, Windows 10 1903/May Update (Build 18362.30) and its Windows Server 1903 supplement each showed up on MSDN for download, as stated by Tero Ahonen and WZor.NET on Twitter. The 1903/May Update bits are not but available within the Evaluation Center or VLSC.

I contacted Microsoft officials to look if this turned into a mistake on its part or if Microsoft meant to make the upcoming launch available a month or so ahead of time table for those with MSDN subscriptions. Or maybe Microsoft’s (unspoken) purpose became to get IT pros to start kicking the tires of the close to-very last Windows 10 1903/May Update in a controlled-pilot sort of way by way of setting the bits on. MSDN? So far, no response from Microsoft on this.

Update: It’s increasingly looking like this was no longer a mistake but intentional. Microsoft officers never shared when they planned to launch the 1903/May Update bits on MSDN in early April. In the past, Microsoft usually released RTM bits to MSDN across the equal time they went to VLSC and other “mainstream” commercial enterprise channels. But it seems like Microsoft goes with the literal definition of MSDN — Microsoft Developer Network — and now not searching at it as an enterprise/IT pro channel. And so 1903’s release on MSDN is tied to the SDK launch nowadays.