Microsoft has said it plans to release two versions of Windows 10 in 2017, but there will be no further upgrades this year.

The news was delivered as Microsoft began rolling out this summer’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which brings tons of great new features for consumers and enterprises alike, but alas, has apparently had a few teething problems so far.

In a post on TechNet, Microsoft didn’t say anything about what features might make it into next year’s two releases, only that there will be two Windows 10 feature “upgrades” in 2017, which are currently codenamed Redstone 2 and Redstone 3. The first of those upgrades was originally scheduled to roll out in fall 2016, but was later pushed back to early 2017, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reported. Now, the schedule calls for Redstone 2 to arrive in spring 2017, with Redstone 3 landing in fall of next year. The company said that the decision was made “based on feedback from organizations moving to Windows 10”.

Microsoft’s use of the term “upgrade” is telling because this is often used to describe major refreshes of its flagship OS. The company tends to call minor security fixes and patches “updates” instead.

Windows 10 roll-back grace period reduced to 10 days

In related news, Microsoft has reduced its roll-back grace period for fresh installs of Windows 10 from 30 days to just 10 days. Which means that anyone who upgrades to the new OS and decides they don’t like it and wants to revert back to Windows 7 or Windows 8, will only have 10 days to do so instead of the usual 30.

Microsoft makes it possible to roll back by storing the old operating system in a special folder that consumes up to 5GB of storage space on most PCs. This folder is deleted once the grace period ends.

However, with the introduction of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Build 1607), that grace period now becomes just 10 days. According to Microsoft, the decision was made after studying data from the masses of telemetry it collects from its users.

“Based on our user research, we noticed most users who choose to go back to a previous version of Windows do it within the first several days,” the company said in a statement to ComputerWorld. “As such, we changed the setting to 10 days to free storage space used by previous copies.”

In the first year of Windows 10’s rather turbulent lifetime, Microsoft has often used its 30-day roll-back feature as a kind of “get out of jail free” card whenever its been criticized. The company has pointed out numerous times that customers are free to roll-back at any time within 30 days after upgrading if they weren’t happy with the new OS, or if they thought they’d been tricked into updating.

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