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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 noxer »

jamesnorden wrote: post #107
noxer wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is bad advice that is being repeated over and over by the so called tech influencers. You go to an older version that only got security updates so you will lack optimizations and features already in the current stable windows 10. And for the foreseeable future you gain nothing at all. If one day the normal version acctually stops reviving security updates, it almost certainly will be possible to switch the updat…

> so you will lack optimizations and features already in the current stable windows 10 Windows gets worse with each update, so this is actually a plus.

There are no update, windows 10 is EOL since months and even before that it did not receive any real updates in a long time. The current version is stable and gets only security updates just like LTSC. There is no point to switch, at best its a waste of time and worst you could run into issues with software that expects home/pro and not LTSC.

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

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Post by bee_rider »

ericpp wrote: post #70
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...

You can continue using normal Windows 10 if you have a Microsoft account attached to it. They give you the option to sign up for free extended updates (until 2027).

Eh, I’m just going to keep using Windows 10 without the account. I’m sure as an ethical company Microsoft will at least distribute patches for any security issues that were present on the day I bought the OS, especially because they are still developing the patches.

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

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Post by greenavocado »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #84
greenavocado wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you even read what I wrote?

I did. You said: > to get a NEW ISO which you then install This is not good.

LOL. The entire ISO transformer code is open source.

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

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Post by sodacanner »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #84
greenavocado wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you even read what I wrote?

I did. You said: > to get a NEW ISO which you then install This is not good.

You provide an official Windows 11 ISO and the tool modifies it to get the new ISO. The tool is open-source here: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

I don't see the issue.

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

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Post by noxer »

ssl-3 wrote: post #104
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...

We had a PC that came properly-licensed with that edition of Windows (with the matching sticker and everything), and it didn't work out as a desktop machine for the intended user. It's been a year or two and some details are lost, but IIRC there were issues with some Intuit program or other. It was probably something that could have been worked around, but workarounds tend to pile up and become difficult to track. I…

Some "bad" coded programs have hard-coded version check and check for the OS name instead of build number, if they forgot LTSC (and server and education) the software will refuse to run on these version. Some reg edits can fix this but its a pointless hassle, there is no need to use LTSC today there are no more annoying updates and unwanted features being added. I have a windows 10 pro machine here running since 3 month 24/7.

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

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Post by Night_Thastus »

mawadev wrote: post #11

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...

Microsoft doesn't care about end users like you or I. We don't impact their bottom line at all. 0%. They care about business customers using other products, and occasionally data collection.

Windows has to be just functional enough to keep businesses that use it from raising a stink about it.

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

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Post by tencentshill »

osti wrote: post #21
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...

Does that support modern gaming?

Most DRM-laden software requires 22H2 minimum. So no Xbox game pass at least.

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

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Post by beagle3 »

nok22kon wrote: post #81
antisthenes wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have to update the IOT version anyway, so might as well get some money off of regular users anyway by "extending" it.

except they are extending it now for free

My guess would be because too many users held out with Win10, are not really a potential income stream, and MS would rather keep them MS customers than Linux or Mac (their next machine might be a Neo rather than Win11 these days).

The cost to Microsoft is essentially zero if they ate already committed to these security updates (and they are, at least for the LTSC branch and some government contracts)

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

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Post by Grombobulous »

gadflyinyoureye wrote: post #75
Terr_ wrote: post #37

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> spyware The privacy-destroying "telemetry" continues to transmute from a theoretical problem to a realistic concern too. For example, many printers puts forensic marks onto pages identifying their serial number, while MS/Apple log all your device serial numbers, which in turn is subject to seizure/threats/theft. The upshot is you can't print an "anonymous" flyer stating I Dislike The Regime without the risk that th…

I'm. Lt sure why this is down voted. ICE showed up at a woman's door trying to force her to take down a benign social media post. What is stopping similar authoritarians from cracking down using these kind of features and registrations? https://newrepublic.com/post/212340/ice-poll-worker-election...

The printer thing seems pretty unrelated, and I don’t think there’s much evidence that simply logging in to your system with your Microsoft account has anything to do with telemetry of the actual content of your computer.

You can obviously send a lot of personal data through Microsoft services that use that account, but merely logging in that way doesn’t seem to just upload your life to Microsoft, either.

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

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Post by mkl »

palmotea wrote: post #101
RachelF wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you.

> And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you. Can you elaborate on the "or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you" part? Ctrl-F isn't finding any mention of that in either https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-quietly-gets-one-more... or https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-... .

It's in the linked Neowin article on how to get the updates: https://www.neowin.net/guides/how-to-get-one-more-year-of-wi...
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