Windows 10 May 2019 Update gets official, late-May planned release

Windows 10 '19H1' will be known officially as the May 2019 Update and should begin rolling out to the public in late May.

Microsoft today announced that the next Windows 10 feature update, codenamed "19H1" and known as version 1903, will be called the Windows 10 May 2019 Update and will begin rolling out to the public starting late May. This is the first "May" update for Windows 10 as previous spring releases always launched in April. While the May 2019 Update was finalized on time, Microsoft is giving it an extra few weeks in testing, to ensure everything is working as intended.

This means that starting next week, the May 2019 Update will be made available to testers in the Release Preview ring and will remain there until late May, where the update should then begin rolling out to the public. Microsoft is changing how the public receives new features updates, however, with the user no longer being forced to install feature updates once they're made available, as long as the version of Windows 10 they're currently running is still in support.

So, even though the May 2019 Update should begin rolling out in late May, if you don't want it you don't have to install it, unless you're running an older version of Windows 10 that isn't in support anymore. This is how Microsoft is handling the rollout of feature updates from now on and is rather unprecedented in the age of "Windows as a Service."

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