For enterprises, the big changes to Windows 10 1709 aren’t obvious

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Microsoft today released the newest Windows 10 feature upgrade, labeled "Fall Creators Update" and numbered 1709, to consumers and commercial customers. The upgrade was the first since Microsoft revamped its Windows 10 servicing model by pledging to deliver two such updates annualVideo conferencingly, and changed the release track nomenclature and support timetable.

As Microsoft pointed out, some practices have changed in its Windows-10-as-a-service concept.

What's in a name?

Today's upgrade carries the label "Semi-Annual Channel," a change in nomenclature from Microsoft's previous Current Branch, the release track offered almost exclusively to consumers. To match the naming convention it created for Office 365, Microsoft dropped its Windows 10 release titles Current Branch and Current Branch for Business, and swapped in Semi-Annual Channel for both.

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