Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2023/05/15/windows_10_21h2_support/
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Their options essentially are to upgrade to Windows 10 22H2 or make the move to Windows 11, which would make Microsoft happy.
Servicing and support for the Windows 10 21H1 Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro Workstation editions ends June 13, with the June 2023 security update – due out that same day – being the last one for those editions.
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"After this date, devices running these versions will no longer receive monthly security and preview updates containing protections from the latest security threats," Redmond writes in a [2]reminder .
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And no worries if you forget to upgrade the OS. Microsoft says it will automatically update those using Microsoft 10 21H1 to a supported version of Windows. You're welcome.
The automatic update is for "consumer devices and non-managed business devices that are at, or within several months of, reaching end of servicing," Microsoft adds. "This keeps your device supported and receiving monthly updates that are critical to security and ecosystem health."
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The timeline for the forced changeover is unclear, though the company says users can [6]choose a time for the upgrade that is convenient to them.
[7]Two Microsoft Windows bugs under attack, one in Secure Boot with a manual fix
[8]Windows 11 wrecks speech recognition for some apps
[9]No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final
[10]Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust
Microsoft reckons users should upgrade to at least the latest version of Windows 10 but no doubt would like to convince as many as possible to make the leap to Windows 11. According to StatCounter, Windows 10 is [11]still used by more people than any other version of the operating system, by a large margin.
Over the last 12 months, use of Windows 10 has remained relatively steady, reaching about 71 percent last month. It was just over 73 percent in March 2022. Meanwhile, Windows 11 use has jumped from almost 9 percent in March to 23 percent in April.
At least use of Windows 7 and 8.1 continue to fall.
Windows 10 22H2 is the [12]last version of Windows 10 and support for it will continue until October 2025.
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No OS iteration lasts forever. Even as Windows 10 continues to wind down and Microsoft makes the push for Windows 11, the speculation – Microsoft hasn't confirmed anything – is that Windows 12 could make its debut next year, three years after Windows 11 came onto the market. ®
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upvote for obvious snark
Re: which means there will be no more security updates or other measures after that.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
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pwned
who owns my computer again?
OK I am running 10 in a VM for testing and other things that *MUST* have Win-10-nic, and I do regularly force-run windows update for those few times I use 10, but still the basic attitude from THEM that "they own YOUR computer" is worse than irritating.
It reminds me of the days when autoexec.bat and config.sys would get "things" added to them whether you wanted it or not - because - whatever thing you just installed IS the ONLY thing your PC could POSSIBLY run, and therefore taking over and mucking with stuff is just fine. Seriously.
Re: pwned
The alternative was to make some blind judgment as to which vendor's pleas to "load me last" was most important.
Best not to install it at all.
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Re: pwned
ATTRIB +R config.sys
ATTRIB +R autoexec.bat
Simples!
Meanwhile, Windows 11 use has jumped from almost 9 percent in March (2022) to 23 percent in April.
Yeah and it was 16% in January last year.
https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-11-continues-its-ascent-16-pcs-converted-january-2022
Oh and it was 9% in 2021
https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-11-nears-9-pc-user-market-share-november-2021-according-survey
These numbers are like using a divining rod. They'll be consistent one day.
Re: Windows 11 use has jumped from almost 9 percent in March (2022) to 23 percent in April.
Something that doesn't seem to have been widely publicised is that it is not possible for a website to distinguish between Windows 10 and 11 using the User Agent string. Naturally there is an alternative which is vastly more complex and only available for the Chrome family of browsers, but it means that measurements of Win11 uptake need even more than the usual pinch of salt.
Forced upgrade
"users can choose a time for the upgrade that is convenient to them"
So, 25 o'clock on the 12th of Never?
Re: Forced upgrade
Or more likely thing to happen is that you carefully leave your work PC on over the weekend and set it up to update on Sunday morning at 8am
Unluckily for you, building services has cut the power to the building for weekend work and wont restore it until 8.30am Monday morning, and you'll switch on your PC at 8.55am to finish up the urgent work/prepare for that 9.05am presentation to the manglement and your pc is going to spend the next 4 hrs showing a spinny little circle thing............
But then m$ has not reckoned with your mighty monday mood, and your PC finds itself accelerating towards the carpark at 9.81m/sec squared
Re: Forced upgrade
Pretty much the only thing my version of Windows does these days is upgrade itself. It gets used once a week for a Skype call because Skype is what the other party is familiar with and the Windows version of Skype plays better with the camera and microphone array on my laptop. Almost every week Windows spends longer updating itself when I shut it down than the Skype call took. That can never be convenient.
Re: Forced upgrade
Windows is designed to reliably upgrade itself, keep installing the upgrades until Windows 12 arrives and you need to buy a new PC for the new upgrades. Windows "users" are only Microsoft Thunders.
(edited to correct my typo, that should have said "funders")
""users can choose a time for the upgrade that is convenient to them"
No, we can't. We can choose a time, up to a few days in advance, that is least inconvenient. And, if we remember, we can keep putting that time back for a few days.
Chances are, I will have several applications running, along with numerous chromes, some of which will be incognito. When I inevitably forget to put the update back yet again, I will eventually wander back to my PC to find that it's cheerfully rebooted itself thereby losing everything in the incognito chromes and anything I didn't save before I left my desk for half an hour yesterday, or even the day before. It drives me nuts - the PC is mine, not Microsoft's, and it should reboot when I want, and not otherwise.
Remember that old ad campaign for Windows 10 as "the last version of Windows"?
I can't imagine what made me think of that.
Well, we have almost 2 years
to make your snark a reality. Anyone want to make a windows clone on BSD? Only please promise to fork the version of BSD and not annoy net, open or free with a flood of crotchety windows and Systemd refugees.
Juicy deets
I went to the Windows Update settings and clicked the "See what's in this update" link. This is the change log for 22H2:
"The Windows 10 2022 Update (Windows 10, version 22H2) delivers a scoped set of improvements in the areas of productivity and management."
Thanks for that, Microsoft.
"Those still using Windows 10 version 21H2 have about a month until support ends, which means there will be no more security updates or other measures after that."
Which means I'll have a stable operating system in a month. Glory be!!!