Windows 10 May 2020 Update might not arrive until the very end of May

Windows 10 May 2020 Update might not be released to the general computing public until almost the very end of May, according to the latest gossip from the OS grapevine.

This comes from one of the most reliable sources of Microsoft rumors out there – Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet – who has heard that the general availability of the May 2020 Update has been pushed back to May 28. Note that this date isn’t confirmed, she observes, and may still change – but this is purportedly the current schedule at Microsoft.

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The previous date the software giant was looking at was May 12 (in other words, ‘Patch Tuesday’), but Microsoft has delayed the release, and Foley claims a possible reason for this is because of a zero-day exploit needed to be patched.

This also ties in with something else we saw this week, when Microsoft rolled out a new preview build of the May 2020 Update to testers in the Release Preview ring, build 19041.208 after the company had previously said that build 19041.207 would be the final version of the upgrade.

This was done because one more fix was needed, and Microsoft felt it was an important enough one (a problem with NPLogonNotify API notifications – basically pertaining to credential management or logins) that it required a new build to be deployed and tested.

So it’s no real surprise that we are hearing about a delay now, especially if there was an extra gremlin in the works in the form of a zero-day vulnerability that needed addressing.