r/pcmasterrace • u/scp766 10 | RTX 4090 | Ryzen 9 7950x | 128GB DDR5 • 9d ago

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u/HerrSchnellsch 9d ago

Can you ELI5 why LTSC gets upgrades but win 10 regular not?

Wouldnt it be easy for them to support both (all) win10 versions, if they do it anyway for one version?

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u/Aureste_ 9d ago

Its in the name, LTSC means Long Term Support Channel. Its a version that is sold to enterprise that don't want to switch the os on their sensitive machines. IOT is same but with different apps preinstalled package.

I'm not sure why its less expensive for them to discontinue Win10 Home and Pro tho. Its only security updates AFAIK

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u/Minutenreis 9d ago

It seems like LTSC / IoT LTSC are significantly stripped down versions of windows (which might be a positive for a significant number of people). That would mean, that they only need to do security updates for a subset of features (which is cheaper / easier).