Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by bundie » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
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Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by jbird99 » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

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

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by vunderba » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

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...

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by greenavocado » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

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/

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by animanoir » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

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Post by jmclnx » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

jbird99 wrote: post #2

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

And sad for us. We may have to wait for nice cheap used hardware for use with Linux or *BSD.

But I wonder if components would have been stripped out due to AI. I heard even older RAM and SDD/HDD are getting expensive.

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Post by LeFantome » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC

vunderba wrote: post #3

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...

Current trends indicate that regular Windows 10 may as well.

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Post by delta_p_delta_x » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC

greenavocado wrote: post #4

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 s…

To anyone reading this: please don't use ISOs downloaded from not-official sources.

Use an autounattend.xml, the mass graves, and a WinGet JSON to customise an online image.

[1]: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/package-manager/wi...

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by eviks » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

greenavocado wrote: post #4

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 s…

That won't help you get to the minimum of Win10, though

Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Post by everyone » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

vunderba wrote: post #3

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...

Also MS go to great lengths to make the secret good version of Windows (It honestly is very good, I'd put it up there with Linux Mint) very difficult to buy. So just torrent it. It's bad enough running Windows let alone giving money to MS.