Windows 10 and the Patch Tuesday of March 2021, it's time to prepare your PC

The great monthly maintenance of Microsoft will begin tomorrow, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. As is the tradition, it will give birth to new cumulative updates for Windows 10.

What to remember

• March Patch Tuesday starts Tuesday, March 9, 2021
• This is the third major Windows 10 maintenance of the year
• Patch Tuesday offers a focus on security.
• A cumulative update can introduce problems, you have to be careful.

This great maintenance is known as Patch Tuesday. Every second Tuesday of every month Microsoft releases a bunch of fixes and patches for its entire software ecosystem. This also and especially concerns Windows 10. All versions of the OS are concerned, however, some editions require to be part of the LTSC channel.

Windows 10 Home and Pro - Support Dates

Version	Start date	End date
Version 20H2	20/10/2020	05/10/2022
2004 version	05/27/2020	12/14/2021
Version 1909	12/11/2019	05/11/2021
Version 1903	05/21/2019	08/12/2020
Version 1809	11/13/2018	10/11/2020
Version 1803	04/30/2018	12/11/2019
Version 1709	17/10/2017	04/09/2019
Version 1703	04/05/2017	09/10/2018
Version 1607	08/02/2016	04/10/2018
Version 1511	10/11/2015	10/10/2017
Version 1507	07/29/2015	05/09/2017

Windows 10 and Patch Tuesday, focus on security

This big meeting offers a focus on security with fixes for Windows 10, its integrated components, and its native applications. It is possible that improvements and some bug fixes are also in the game.

The history of Windows 10 shows that this is a critical time. On several occasions, certain new cumulative updates were accompanied by more or less serious problems and failures. This situation was identified so well that caution is necessary.

We recommend that you wait a bit before allowing all these beautiful people to install. This approach will allow you to make sure that no major bugs are present. It is an efficient solution for determining the reliability of updates while having as much information as possible about its content. It is also recommended that you back up your operating system. The approach allows rapid backtracking in the event of serious failure. The most relevant backup is to clone the system disk. It allows you to quickly go back by keeping all the data, applications, and settings.

Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version Next (10.0.21327.1010) (KB5001277) Appeared on March 09, 2021 (Tuesday)