Windows 10 October 2018 Update Automatic Phased Rollout Starts

Automatic Phased Rollout of Windows 10 October 2018 Update Has Begun

Currently, Microsoft is automatically supplying the compatible computers with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. According to an updated support document from Microsoft, the company indicates that it has begun the phased rollout of Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Meanwhile, some of you should start obtaining it now.

In this situation, if your computer is compatible and ready, you will be prompted to download and install Windows 10 version 1809 very soon. This condition is very similar to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update and it is a staggered rollout. The new and compatible computers will get this feature update first.

As to Windows 10 October 2018 Update automatic, we will quote an explanation from Microsoft itself which was written in the support document days ago:

“We are now starting our phased rollout to users via Windows Update, initially offering the update to devices we believe will have the best update experience based on our next generation machine learning model.”

In 2018, the Windows April 2018 Update phased rollout was successful relatively and the company had credited the Artificial Intelligence (AI) for this. Then, it’s time for Windows 10 October 2018 Update rollout, and Microsoft also uses the machine learning model.

At the very beginning, the Microsoft company didn’t know there are a lot of bugs and critical issues in Windows 10 version 1809, and the feature update of Windows 10 was released back in October 2018.

For example, after updating Windows 10 to the latest version, many users reported that their files were missing. This was a serious problem that Microsoft even rolled back the update and then re-release it when the issue is solve.

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Some other issues like Black Screen of Death, iCloud application incompatibility, driver issues, and so forth also bothered Microsoft at that time.

Then, Microsoft has to locate the reported bugs and released many cumulative updates to address all known bugs.

After a long time’s fixes, Windows 10 October 2018 Update is stable now and its users no longer reflect any new critical issues and bugs.

On the surface, you can continue to use the Windows 10 April 2018 Update as the latest Windows version seems to be ready for the coming prime time.

You Will Be Able to Download Windows 10 Update Automatically

Windows 10 October2018 Update automatic download is going to be widespread all over the world. Unless you delay the Windows 10 update manually in the Setting application, the machine will begin to download the update files automatically. Thus, If you are not ready for the update, or the common used applications are not compatible, you can go to delay the Windows update until you are confident.

How to delay the automatic update in Windows 10 Pro?

Please go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and click Advanced options.

In the Advanced options page, you can see the Pause Updates section which can temporarily pause Windows updates from being installed for up to 35 days. If you want to delay the update for up tp 365 days, you can go to the Choose when updates are installed section to make such a setting.

When you want to receive the monthly security updates again, you need to change the quality update value to 0 days.