Windows 10

Windows 10 is a series of Microsoft Windows operating systems, first introduced in July 2015 after being announced in September 2014. It succeeded Windows 8.1 and was ultimately superseded by Windows 11 in October 2021. As of January 2025, operating systems from the series run on 60.37% of Windows devices.Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats In April 2023, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 2022 Update would be the last version of Windows 10 as the series will reach end of support on 14 October 2025.https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-client-roadmap-update-april-2023/ba-p/3805227
A new release model called Windows as a service was introduced with smaller and regular feature updates, as opposed to releasing a major version of Windows every few years. Usually, these updates are a new build of the operating system, although in a few cases Microsoft released feature updates consisting of a limited set of new functionality using the regular cumulative update infrastructure. From 2017 to 2021, feature updates were released twice in a year, with the first feature update being released in spring and the other in fall. The schedule was realigned in 2021 in that feature updates for Windows 10 would be released annually in order to be consistent with Windows 11's new release cadence.https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/11/16/how-to-get-the-windows-10-november-2021-update/
The Windows Insider Program was also introduced with Windows 10, which boosted the company's engagement with beta testers as well as distributed new pre-release builds more frequently than the prior beta testing initiatives. This also greatly cut down the number of leaks from within the company, which in the past bothered the company due to legal complications of contracted features becoming available earlier than anticipated. However, while early Insider builds often contained some clearly unfinished features and did not attempt to hide them, the Windows team has gradually moved towards locking such features down using systems such as Velocity and only unlocking them in an almost finished state.
The Windows 10 series is the last to run on 32-bit x86 systems, as support for these has been ultimately removed with the original release of Windows 11. It is also the last to support the legacy PC/AT BIOS firmware even on 64-bit systems as Windows 11 now requires UEFI firmware with Secure Boot support, which has been a part of Microsoft requirements for newly designed devices since Windows 8.
== List of feature updates ==
Name	Version	Based on 	Build no.	Release date	Support end date	Support end date	Support end date	Support end date	
Name	Version	Based on 	Build no.	Release date	Consumer 	Enterprise 	LTSC 	IoT LTSC 	
 	1507 	Threshold 	10240 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	1511 	Threshold 2 	10586 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	1607 	Redstone 1 	14393 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	1703 	Redstone 2 	15063 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	1709 	Redstone 3 	16299 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	1803 	Redstone 4 	17134 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	1809 	Redstone 5 	17763 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	1903 	Titanium 	18362 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	1909 	Vanadiumhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/what-comes-after-windows-10-19h1-vanadium/ 	18363 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	2004 	Vibraniumhttps://web.archive.org/web/20191214130318/https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1125409514193281024	19041 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	20H2 	Vibraniumhttps://web.archive.org/web/20191214130318/https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1125409514193281024	19042 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	21H1 	Vibraniumhttps://web.archive.org/web/20191214130318/https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1125409514193281024	19043 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	21H2 	Vibraniumhttps://web.archive.org/web/20191214130318/https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1125409514193281024	19044 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	22H2 	Vibraniumhttps://web.archive.org/web/20191214130318/https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1125409514193281024	19045 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
==Notes==
==References==
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