According to plan, Microsoft will release Windows 11 LTSC in the final phase of Windows 10 support, which will happen almost exactly two and a half years from now, in October 2025, the long-planned farewell date. However, not all Windows 10 users will need to log out at that point.

Specifically, Windows 10 users can get by with it until the end of 2027, the year when extended support for the latest version of Windows 10 LTSC, released in October 2021 and with five years of guaranteed updates, ends. This is what the LTSC acronym consists of, and as you can read in the headline, the next one is Windows 11. Which, if not.

Just yesterday we actually told you that Windows 10 would no longer have new versions, which may have been intuitively conceived in a different way than how it would happen, but it was taken for granted. This means that once Windows 11 is well established, and despite the regrets, and when we talk about Windows 11, there are several, the development of Windows 10 would be reduced to mere maintenance.

And so it will be, with the addition that you will not receive additional versions as such or new features, but maintenance updates (security patches, fixes and little else). Ergo, Windows 10 22H2, the version released by Microsoft last October, will be the last in the line and also the last installation image to be distributed.

Back with Windows 11 LTSC: what’s the deal? And when will it be released? Windows LTSC (Long-Term Service Channel) It is a version of Windows aimed at the professional sector with a peculiarity, as its abbreviation suggests: extended support for five years, a period during which this version will not receive new features that may pose a risk to system stability, but rather security patches and fixes.

In that sense, there won’t be much difference between what happens with Windows 10 and the next Windows 11 LTSC, apart from the fact that this version has a specific purpose, apart from being a limited version for its target audience with two unique editions, Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSCwhich will be available from the second half of 2024, although they can already be tested through the GA channel of Windows 11 22H2.

This Windows LTSC is certainly not a version for ordinary users of the Microsoft operating system, but it is very widespread in the professional market, in the segment of Linux distributions for professionals, but also in applications (it is also common to find web browser versions of this type).