Why August 2nd and not July 28th?

[Chintan Gohel]

Windows 10 was released for pcs on July 29th, 2015. Shouldn't the new anniversary update happen on July 28th or 29th? Or was there a reason for the 2-3 days delay?

It isn't a proper anniversary update if it's 3 days late, is it?

Or is it that upgrading a pc from 7 directly to redstone is risky?

What are your thoughts?

 

[jmshub]

I think they just wanted a few extra days to get everything right. August 2 also happens to be a Tuesday, which was also the magic day for Windows Updates on Windows 7 and below, so there must be something magical about Tuesdays to Microsoft.

 

[HeyCori]

History of Patch Tuesday

Microsoft introduced "Patch Tuesday" in October 2003 to reduce the cost of distributing patches. This system accumulates security patches over a month, and dispatches them all on the second Tuesday of each month, an event for which system administrators may prepare.

 

[RohanRonQM]

Microsoft is doing it on Aug 2nd because anyone who hasn't upgraded will miss out on the Redstone 1 stuff. Win 7 and Win 8 users better upgrade before July 29 and then upgrade again on Aug 2 (for RS1)

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Microsoft is doing it on Aug 2nd because anyone who hasn't upgraded will miss out on the Redstone 1 stuff. Win 7 and Win 8 users better upgrade before July 29 and then upgrade again on Aug 2 (for RS1)

it's going to be a big storm that week