Microsoft reveals Windows 10 Anniversary Update release date by mistake

Someone at Microsoft appears to have hit publish a little too soon.

The company just announced that the first major update to Windows 10 will become available 2 August. Microsoft published a blog post early Tuesday to reveal the news, with the headline “Microsoft announces Windows 10 Anniversary Update available Aug. 2”, but the full post was pulled down just moments later, leading many eagle-eye fans to believe the post must’ve been published by accident.

You can see a web archive version of the original blog post from here. It’s unclear if Microsoft published the wrong information or simply hit the publish button early, but we can expect the Redmond-based company to make an official announcement sooner rather than later. We’re also assuming the information in the now-deleted post’s headline is correct: Windows 10’s Anniversary Update will arrive this August.

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Microsoft first announced its Windows 10 Anniversary Update in March during the annual Build developer conference. At the time, Microsoft only said the update would arrive “this summer”. The software is set to bring new features that focus on Windows Ink and improving stylus-use. It’ll also bring extensions for Edge and upgrades for Hello and Cortona, among other things. You can read all about the update from here. 

The Anniversary Update should arrive around the 1-year anniversary of Window 10’s release (which launched 29 July 2015). It’ll be free to everyone with a device running Windows 10. If you’re updating from an older version of Windows, you’ll have to pay $119 for a full install.