Friday, May 19th 2023
Microsoft Will Force Windows 10 22H2 Upgrades Next Month
Microsoft is determined to get the entirety of its Windows 10 userbase onto the final version - 22H2 - by early summer. Older iterations including 21H2 (issued in November of 2021), will not receive official support beyond the date: June 13 2023. The announcement crept out quietly last week, via the company's Learn Documentation center: "Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations editions of Windows 10, version 21H2 will reach end of servicing. The upcoming June 2023 security update, to be released on June 13, 2023, will be the last update available for these versions. After this date, devices running these version will no longer receive monthly security and preview updates containing protections from the latest security threats."
The reminder does not give specific details about rollout timings, but news outlets reckon that OS-focused enforcements will begin in early June: "To help keep you protected and productive, Windows Update will automatically initiate a feature update for Windows 10 consumer devices and non-managed business devices that are at, or within several months of, reaching end of servicing. This keeps your device supported and receiving monthly updates that are critical to security and ecosystem health. For these devices, you will be able to choose a convenient time for your device to restart and complete the update." Microsoft provides further advice and recommends that users update (manually) to version 2H22 at the earliest opportunity, or take the larger step of transferring to Windows 11. Last month TPU reported on a similar official advisory blog entry, where the author/product manager (in effect) proposed "that current Windows 10 users move to 11 as soon as possible, in order to enjoy a continued stream of feature updates."
Source:
Windows Central
The reminder does not give specific details about rollout timings, but news outlets reckon that OS-focused enforcements will begin in early June: "To help keep you protected and productive, Windows Update will automatically initiate a feature update for Windows 10 consumer devices and non-managed business devices that are at, or within several months of, reaching end of servicing. This keeps your device supported and receiving monthly updates that are critical to security and ecosystem health. For these devices, you will be able to choose a convenient time for your device to restart and complete the update." Microsoft provides further advice and recommends that users update (manually) to version 2H22 at the earliest opportunity, or take the larger step of transferring to Windows 11. Last month TPU reported on a similar official advisory blog entry, where the author/product manager (in effect) proposed "that current Windows 10 users move to 11 as soon as possible, in order to enjoy a continued stream of feature updates."
53 Comments on Microsoft Will Force Windows 10 22H2 Upgrades Next Month
1 - 10 Was a stagnant OS for a decade, and the OS needed to move on.
2 - Old hardware is the cause of many of the security issues so as such, the only way to solve them was to ditch support for that hardware.
3 - Releasing a new OS would allow Microsoft to rollout new technology.
Amusing as 10 unlike previous versions of windows had major feature updates, install the original windows 10 and compare it to the latest version, massive changes, enough that would normally warrant a new version of windows. The article was written like feature updates are a new thing in 11.
The hardware changes mentioned I felt were a misnomer, I understand for developers supporting old hardware means more work load, but be real about it, just openly state you no longer want to support the hardware, dont pretend that hardware pre dated TPM 2.0 is the major cause of security problems. The biggest issues are the security model in windows. Examples being, routinely executables are ran from temp locations, from user data folders, and we still in 2023 have the default accounts as administrators. The model of using things like svchost and rundll32 is a haven for malware authors as well.
I still think its a combination of working with hardware vendors to increase their sales via obsoleting hardware past a certain age, and a way to push their latest copycat Mac OS UI on to people.
The good news is LTSC will keep 10 around for a little longer supported, and there is a explorer patcher out there now that can bring back much of the W10 UI in 11. But of course 11 wont live as long as 10 did, so who knows what further disaster will happen to the UI in 12.Yep, windows was basically reinstalled as the changes were so massive, thats why the setup screen was displayed and was so slow, but I noticed when I updated a VM from 21H1 to 21H2 it was merely a short patching process.
i'll stop using it when either steam/games/firefox stop supporting win10, and we know that will be much further than the 2025 end of support for regular win10 due to LTSC commitments.
so screw MS and their winshit11 slow trash
M$ markets (stupidly) heavy that its Window's ecosystem is about SECURITY/PRIVACY ***FIRST*** but... uhm... for weeks now (maybe even for months, I'm super surprised that "Tech" [really] Power Up has refused to cover this very serious exposure) it was recently confirmed that Windows has broken ALL VPNs securities and Windows is also forcing internet timeouts (IP leakage), super slow speeds (compromised tunnels), etc. (intentionally??? - MS has the no.1 amount of billions of dollars of government's software, etc. contracts in the world) and once MS were exposed for their behavior, MS only rebuttal to this very serious situation is - "We know about it"... WTF?!?!
When I buy a new SSD in a while, I'll try Win 11 and dual boot for a while. That's what I always do with a new system after waiting for a few years since release. Most problems are usually resolved by then.
Although I hope Win 12 actually comes out before Win 10's end of life. That should be a good system, looking back at the entire history of Windows.
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Milennials and the rest in between are screwed, like with most things these days :D
Thank You.
Since, this is to be 'the final' W10 build?
Last reinstall, I went with 'normal' Windows 10 Pro instead of LTSC to get 22H2.Didn't realize I 'did the repeating digits' thing, again:
22H2, installed 11 / 11 / 22 :laugh:
No, I didn't just automatically put it on, it only was installed if the customer explicitly was complaining about Win8+'s new interface.
Many a time, Classic Shell was what 'sold' a bundled PC and services. So, Whatever...
I was both surprised and amused to find out that Classic Shell was made by the same company as my favorite 4X strategy game; Sins of a Solar Empire, by Stardock Software.
Stick to the topic.
Thank You.