Microsoft pushes Windows 10 May 2019 Update to the Release Preview ring

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Microsoft pushed the upcoming new feature update for the company's Windows 10 operating system, called the May 2019 Update, to the Release Preview ring today.

The company announced just a few days ago that it would change the usual process of distributing feature updates to Windows 10 machines directly. Instead of making available the update right away, Microsoft decided to give it another round of testing in the Release Preview ring.

Release Preview is one of the available Windows Insider rings; the other rings are Skip Ahead, Fast Ring, and Slow Ring which differ in the frequency and recency of builds they receive.

The release to the Release Preview ring marks the last step in the development process. Microsoft plans to release the May 2019 Update at the end of May. The release is delayed by about a month because of the new process, and because the last feature update to be released, Windows 10 version 1809, took longer than expected to reach broad deployment because of stopper bugs that forced Microsoft to pause the distribution of the update.

Feature update logic changes with the release of the May 2019 Update. Windows administrators who did not want their devices to be updated automatically to new feature updates had to defer updates or change updating behavior otherwise to avoid that and to never click on "check for updates" manually either.

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