Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates (neowin.net)
55 points by bundie 2 hours ago
vunderba an hour ago
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...
LeFantome an hour ago
Current trends indicate that regular Windows 10 may as well.
everyone 41 minutes ago
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.
shevy-java 22 minutes ago
> It honestly is very good, I'd put it up there with Linux Min
I am not necessarily a Microsoft hater per se, but to insinuate that Linux is on the same level as the Microsoft operating system is really strange to me. Whenever I, for instance, have to copy files to windows, I am getting annoyed at how slow it is compared to Linux. And that's just one issue I have. Another one is how slow e. g. ruby is on windows, compared to linux. The windows operating system is simply not good. Linux also has issues, in particular the main GUIs (both qt and gtk suck).
nly 4 minutes ago
osti 28 minutes ago
Does that support modern gaming?
badocr 15 minutes ago
It does support "modern gaming" yes, but like the sibling comment mentions, at least Riot's anti-cheat demands Windows 10 22H2 (the last iteration of Win10) as a minimum. There are a few somewhat convoluted workarounds floating around that people use. Also Adobe CS seems to require Win10 22H2.
vunderba 23 minutes ago
My only caveat is that I’m not sure how it handles multiplayer games that require anti-cheat or DRM-style mechanisms, but it’s been flawless with every title I’ve thrown at it so far (BG3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Cyberpunk, Ori, etc)
eska 17 minutes ago
Even Riot’s rootkit “Vanguard” has reduced requirements for Windows 10.
kgwxd 12 minutes ago
"modern gaming" being a euphemism for "more proprietary software that has chained us to even worse proprietary software for decades".
mawadev 39 minutes ago
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...
nosioptar 2 minutes ago
I assume they're secretly trying to get people over to Mageia.
The people I've switched from windows to Mageia since win11 all love it.
(As great as Mageia is, it does have small repos compared to Debian or fedora.)
senfiaj 26 minutes ago
>> Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot and being all react wasn't great.
For me a bigger concern is that Windows 11 requires MS account, and making harder and harder to bypass it. This is a disrespect for my freedom and privacy. The hardware is not the biggest issue because it might catch up eventually. https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-...
lazide 11 minutes ago
Also the constant turning on despite my prior explicitly disabling of spyware (memory ‘live sampling’ to the cloud for ‘virus protection’, one drive ‘auto backup’), and features I’ve explicitly disabled like copilot.
It’s creepy as fuck, and for no real benefit to me that I can tell.
grouchomarx a few seconds ago
this will probably go on for a long time, which is great because I won't install win11
firefoxd 30 minutes ago
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.
shevy-java 20 minutes ago
Have you tried wineHQ? It works very well IMO. But I also understand your point of view here; I have a second computer system on my left running Win10.
jbird99 an hour ago
Especially with hardware prices at the moment, this is a welcome announcement for many companies right now who need a refresh.
jmclnx an hour ago
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.
b3ing 7 minutes ago
I wonder if it’s because hardware costs are going up
tjoff 39 minutes ago
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.
layer8 37 minutes ago
You can use https://github.com/abbodi1406/ConsumerESU to bypass the account requirement.
techteach00 30 minutes ago
Windows 10 for me until new games won't run on it
kgwxd 7 minutes ago
And then?
greenavocado an hour ago
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.
delta_p_delta_x an hour ago
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...
layer8 34 minutes ago
The tool linked by the parent doesn't download ISOs from non-official sources.
dietr1ch 38 minutes ago
Even cleaner when you don't install Windows at all :P
Why would people put themselves through the painful process of keeping themselves safe from their own computer?
eviks 44 minutes ago
That won't help you get to the minimum of Win10, though
computer23 31 minutes ago
They could actually help with the RAM and SSD shortage by extending support for Windows 10.
shevy-java 24 minutes ago
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).