Microsoft has finally decided that it can fully push ahead with deploying the troubled October 2018 Update, having officially labelled the upgrade as ready for broad deployment to Windows 10 users.

The organization has just announced: "Based around the data and the feedback we've received from consumers, OEMs, ISVs, partners, and commercial customers, Windows 10 version 1809 [Windows 10 October 2018 Update] has transitioned to broad deployment."

Essentially, which means that Microsoft believes the update is fully shipshape and able to be delivered broadly to any or all PCs, also to business computers (with business environments needing to ensure the soundness of the update for self-evident reasons - downtime is expensive here).

Windows 10 October 2018 Update has already established a dismal time of things since its release, and even shortly after it was launched, critical bugs (involving file deletion) caused Microsoft to prevent distribution of the upgrade entirely for a month.

Even when it resumed, the update was trickled out in a snail's pace, even though Microsoft announced it had fully restarted its 'phased rollout' process in January, the deployment process has still been slow.

Seriously sluggish

As we saw yesterday, the October 2018 Update is still only on around one fourth of Windows 10 PCs out there, according to one set of statistics. Maybe now the adoption rate will ultimately kick into a greater gear.

There's even talk that some computers will skip the October 2018 Update entirely, given that its successor - which will supposedly be known as the April 2019 Update - is expected to start its rollout next month.

And that's perhaps why Microsoft is now trying to forge ahead with the October 2018 Update - because there's simply little time left. Although obviously, the worry here may be that in trying to rush things out the door a bit, there may be gremlins within the works somewhere.

Fingers crossed that isn't the situation, but it wouldn't be a massive stretch to think, because of the good reputation for the October 2018 Update, which seems to have run into only niggles - or indeed show-stopping bugs - since birth.