The next Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release

Thank you all for your comments.   I can assure you that the change in policy is not meant as a "jab" to anyone but rather to align with our overall lifecycle policies with Office -  we do see instances where customers use LTSC for everyday, "knowledge worker" scenarios and for that, we have alignment of five years with the Office LTSC release.   For use cases which require longer servicing without any new feature updates/changes to the device itself, we do suggest you look at the IoT LTSC edition as that is supported for 10 years directly by the OEM, which would have the hardware driver support necessary to support a static environment required.

Jason Leznek

Principal Program Manager - Windows Lifecycle

Microsoft Corporation