Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates (neowin.net)

Especially with hardware prices at the moment, this is a welcome announcement for many companies right now who need a refresh.

Anyone who still needs to run Windows 10 for whatever reason should switch over to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 (version 21H2) which will continue to receive security updates up through 2032.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/rel...

You can get a completely minimalist Windows 11 by grabbing an ISO from Microsoft then reprocessing the ISO by feeding it into this utility: https://github.com/christitustech/winutil (Win11 Creator Tab) to get a NEW ISO which you then install. The end result is an extremely clean and stable Windows 11 installation.

  The resulting image can remove telemetry, bypass hardware requirement checks, and enable local account setup out of the box.

Official docs:

https://winutil.christitus.com/

https://winutil.christitus.com/userguide/win11creator/

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What even is Microsoft's strategy? Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great. Now we have a hardware shortage and ai in everything. I miss the time when it was "My computer" and not "This PC". I just hope they keep Windows 10 around till 2030 and longer...

Needs to be logged in, so not exactly user friendly. But made me happy, I was afraid I might have to do updates again now I can continue life not being bothered by windows update.

They could actually help with the RAM and SSD shortage by extending support for Windows 10.

I was a ubuntu user and work forced me to use a windows machine. Over the years I've accumulated so much software that I have no intention of leaving behind (photoshop cs2). In the past year though, I've been transitioning back to Ubuntu. So many software now offer Linux support, there's even less incentives to stay with Microsoft products. And of course is doing everything in it's power to alienate us.

Windows 10 for me until new games won't run on it

I have Win10 on a computer on my left side as "backup" system.

I decided I won't change to Win11, so Win10 will be last Windows version to use. It's no issue in that I am using Linux since late ~2004 anyway, but I am also unwilling to cater to Microsoft anylonger. I think it is time that governments no longer force people to use Windows in general. For similar reasons I reject the upcoming mandatory age sniffing that lobbyists are pushing for (together with their attempt to kill off VPNs).

I wonder if it’s because hardware costs are going up

this will probably go on for a long time, which is great because I won't install win11

Why does Windows 11 still have "Control Panel" and "Settings", both of which are similar but entirely different?

I hate Microsoft, I was very happy with Windows 10 but Windows 11 is different for no reason except to be different.

The old "Windows alternates good and bad releases" rule is dead and buried. Every major version since Windows 7 has been a downgrade on what came before. I'd rather be using Windows 8 than Windows 10 and you will have to drag me kicking and screaming into Windows 11.

"Quietly" seem to be the most popular headline word this year.

Do the start menu ads pay for this? It is conceivable that they could.

Thanks DoD! While you’re at it let’s keep SCCM around for another 50 years! Woooo!

Too late. Had to switch to Fedora last year because my machine didn’t support TPM 2.0 and the CPU was one generation older. I know TPM 1.3 is less secure, but I didn’t care in the context of that specific machine. I wish I had the option. Fedora runs great on it though.

"quietly" is a dead give away for claude. It is everywhere.

I predict it will be extended at least another year if not two on top of this.

The install base is just too high. Microsoft has to support it, or find a way to convince more people to upgrade.

Nice, it gives me another year to think about what I want to do with my old gaming laptop

when I need the Web I use Live Linux. I do not EVER let MS, or anybody else muck up my computer system(s).

The updates themselves can be a driver of new Win 11 computer purchases. My dad got a bad update (I couldn't figure out which one) which froze his computer a few minutes after boot. I had to reset Windows, and it worked again after that, though now the pain is mine because I have to reinstall/reconfig all his stuff. But a normal person without a free tech-support guy like me around might have just bought a new PC at that point.

Folks can’t afford to buy a new computer right now, so M$ needs to give them an alternative to installing Ubuntu and finding out it’s plenty fast on their windows 10 machine.

I wish there was a security-only-updates channel for Windows in general. I basically want no new features, I just want something that doesn't change and doesn't brick on random tuesdays.