The Long-Term Servicing Branch
The Long-Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) has a ten year support time frame, like with former Windows releases. The ten year time frame is also split into five years main support and five years extended support. During this ten year time frame, the LTSB will only get security and quality updates but no feature updates. Stability and not breaking anything are the most critical points.
LTSB versions are only available as Windows 10 Enterprise LTSBs. So if you do not have Windows 10 Enterprise, you won't qualify for LTSB. The version always contains a year in its name. So the first LTSB version created is now referenced as Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2015. In 2016, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016 was released, but don't ...
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