Microsoft Adds Another Year To Windows 10 Extended Update Program (arstechnica.com) 122
Microsoft has quietly extended free Windows 10 security updates for consumers by another year, pushing the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program's end date from October 12, 2026, to October 12, 2027. "The ESU support page was updated with that date, and Microsoft's blog post on the program has a new editor's note confirming the change," reports Ars Technica. From the report: The prevalence of Windows across so many devices and form factors has given Microsoft a massive customer base for decades, but it has also stymied the company's efforts to roll out new operating systems. Microsoft famously extended the support window for Windows XP numerous times throughout the 2010s as it became apparent that millions of PCs would never be updated. Windows 10 isn't quite as entrenched as XP was, but it has still been a slog getting people to upgrade to Windows 11 even nearly five years after release.
Unlike many past Windows updates, Windows 11 required some users to buy new PCs with specific CPU technologies and a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Microsoft was widely criticized for excluding perfectly serviceable PCs, and that's turning into a problem in 2026. The AI-driven shortage of storage and memory has made system upgrades vastly more expensive, potentially slowing upgrades. Some have also avoided Windows 11 due to Microsoft's intense focus on AI features.
The result is that Windows 10 remains stubbornly popular. According to StatCounter data, Windows 10 is still running on about 26 percent of PCs, while Windows 11 sits at 72 percent. That means there are still hundreds of millions of active Windows 10 installs, but those machines will be up to date for at least an additional year.
Unlike many past Windows updates, Windows 11 required some users to buy new PCs with specific CPU technologies and a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Microsoft was widely criticized for excluding perfectly serviceable PCs, and that's turning into a problem in 2026. The AI-driven shortage of storage and memory has made system upgrades vastly more expensive, potentially slowing upgrades. Some have also avoided Windows 11 due to Microsoft's intense focus on AI features.
The result is that Windows 10 remains stubbornly popular. According to StatCounter data, Windows 10 is still running on about 26 percent of PCs, while Windows 11 sits at 72 percent. That means there are still hundreds of millions of active Windows 10 installs, but those machines will be up to date for at least an additional year.
No good options here (Score:5, Insightful)
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If you hear "if you can't afford a Macbook Neo you're too poor to be an Apple customer," don't be surprised.
I definitely heard that related to iMessage a decade ago. The 666 304's had some thing about bubble colors.
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Windows is so unstable that rebooting or updating could cause the entire OS to corrupt itself, and then you can quickly become screwed, especially if it was doing a UEFI update and failed part way. There have been other re
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I have relatives in their 70s and 80s who have converted to Linux Mint for 100% of their daily driving. They didn't install it, but once it's set up, they can use it as easily and competently as they did Windows. Not that they were particularly competent at Windows, but that means no penalty moving to Linux.
BitLocker likes to activate at the drop of a hat, and I suppose it should, but when you combine that with all the fuckups surrounding Windows with Secure Boot, the TPM stuff, and online account requireme
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The Microsoft website is supposed to give you your BitLocker key. (Under Account Settings -> My Devices). And, most of the time it does. But there's a persistent bug over at least the last couple years I've been supporting it, where about 10% of the Bitlocker keys just refuse to pull up. The device is listed, complete with the hex Bitlocker ID, and the box to display the recovery key opens when you click it, but it's empty. No key.
What makes this worse is BIOS/firmware updates are pushed through Windows
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Re:No good options here (Score:4, Insightful)
That's not how linux works. Distros having extra stuff isn't bloat unless you install it all.
You're stuck with windoze because you can't stop yourself from switching an installer to an advanced mode and clicking every single checkbox?!
That's getting into "maybe you don't need a desktop computer" territory.
Anyways, I thought Wayland was supposed to fix the problem of X11 having too many features?! Of course, my response was "I can afford a few megs of storage for X."
Plus, even if you do install "everything" on Linux, the whole thing fits on the cheapest HDs on the market using only a tiny fraction of the space. So what's the "bloat," even at the extreme of installing junk? Just too much stuff in the menu, and you don't know which of the 10 applications for Foo to click on?
Re:No good options here (Score:4, Funny)
"you don't know which of the 10 applications for Foo to click on?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
I'm looking for a new TV. I know this problem.
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The "expert install" option on a Debian installer only gives you a checkbox for "standard Debian utilities" - so it's all or none. I don't need LibreOffice, or Gimp, or many others, but my "choice" is to install all of them and remove unwanted ones later, or install none and painstakingly catch up later.
I do remember the much older versions having long checklists but that seems to have gone.
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Bloat in Windows is in a whole different league that Linux "bloat". If a machine was able to run Windows 10 - heck, even if it ran Windows 7 or probably even XP - it should be able to handle a user-friendly distro like Linux Mint [linuxmint.com] just fine.
Re: No good options here (Score:2)
I bought a laptop for grad school 10 years ago. It replaced a then-10 year old laptop I bought at the end of college. I'm still using the 10 yo laptop as my daily driver for the little I need a full keyboard for. Recently maxed out the ram on. Might put in a new ssd at some point. Unless something physically breaks I expect I'll be using it for another half a decade with some kind of Linux and a win10 vm for tax filing sw.
Ewaste is just wastefulness. That is to say a personal choice.
Throw out your socks or
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RAM yes, but there is no "unemployment crisis". Unemployment has crept up slightly. Whoop de fucking do, it's within a percent of where it's been since COVID and is still lower than where it was for most of the 2010s.
If you're in a "crisis" now, you've been in a "crisis" for 2 decades with the exception of only a couple of years.
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If you're in a "crisis" now, you've been in a "crisis" for 2 decades with the exception of only a couple of years.
The rates are bad, we don't focus on using the least bad estimate we produce, and we stave off crisis to a degree with mediocre public assistance programs which struggle to cover needs for lack of funding but which really amount to can-kicking. That's better than nothing, but still leaves us poised for disaster. If Cheeto Benito successfully terminates these programs (as he has been trying to do, and he has successfully been interfering with them) then the looming crises become immediate not quite overnight
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sigh s/more /
I don't want edit, I want a browser grammar checker that's all client side.
Re: No good options here (Score:3)
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Unemployment crisis?
The current US unemployment rate is 4.3%.
The current US *tech* unemployment rate is 3.8%.
I don't think we've quite reached crisis levels yet.
Time for Microsoft to do a Coca Cola (Score:5, Funny)
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"Windows 7 Classic" - FTFY
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My favourite part about your comment is it shows that people will eventually come around to calling the current mistake "classic" and demand it. Your post would not have been out of place back in 2015 lamenting about the loss of Windows 7 and lambasting Windows 10.
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My favourite part about your comment is it shows that people will eventually come around to calling the current mistake "classic" and demand it. Your post would not have been out of place back in 2015 lamenting about the loss of Windows 7 and lambasting Windows 10.
Why would anyone give two shits about unnecessarily disruptive change when there is little to no commensurate value to show for it in return? This isn't the 90s. PCs and operating systems are a mature technology. For many there is more value in continuity.
These days the value proposition is often negative given Microsoft's malware oriented business model depends upon increasing aggression towards its own customers. Endless ads, spying, embarrassing UX regressions and unwanted dependencies rather than us
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And admit their mistake by releasing "Windows 10 Classic'"
If they release a Windows 10 Classic Zero Ads, I'd be really interested.
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Funny, but the Apple approach would be "Vintage Windows 10".
This never really worked (Score:4, Insightful)
They allegedly offered certain customers options to extend the updates freely, but this absolutely never worked not even shortly before the first EOL last year. And in the last weeks leading up to the EOL they kept closing more and more options to freely and/or conveniently extend the EOL, to force everyone to win11.
Seriously, just F M$ and finally make the switch to Linux. There are many great and rock solid distros out there, and many options to easil run legacy windos software like wine and proton.
Absolutely nobody really needs win for anything anymore.
Re: This never really worked (Score:2)
Forcing MS login account is not convenient if your ISP is down.
"Up to date" (Score:4, Insightful)
>"That means there are still hundreds of millions of active Windows 10 installs, but those machines will be up to date for at least an additional year."
And they could be up to date for many, many, many years if Linux was installed on those, instead. Then updates would be fast, easy, free, installed when and how you want, not suddenly change things you don't want changed, not slow your machine down, and not require any "subscription" service or even a login. And then after those years shift from a "update" path to an "upgrade" path and have many years more.
I regularly use 10+ year old machines (some even much older) that work just as fine now under Linux as they did when first purchased. RAM use has increased a little, which is to be expected, but overall performance is just as good. The days of needing to upgrade hardware every few years to have a good experience are long gone.
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I spent 6 months installing Pop!OS, Mint, and Garuda-Gaming on "obsolete" office systems and giving them away to people that needed PCs.
MS e-waste fault is a fucking travesty.
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And they could be up to date for many, many, many years if Linux was installed on those, instead.
And a lot of them are. There seems to be a quite healthy market for used/refurbed PCs of the Windows 10 generation with people scooping them up to run Jellyfin, Home Assistant, LLMs/agents, and the like. I doubt as many of these are going to the landfill as some may think. It is likely significant boon for Linux usage overall.
I regularly use 10+ year old machines (some even much older) that work just as fine now under Linux as they did when first purchased.
Likewise. I just grabbed an 8th gen i7 box to run Frigate and it works great. I expect that machine to have many years of useful life in it yet.
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There are essentially no versions of Linux that I would trust the "general" population to use. These people/businesses clinging to Windows 10 are the type of people who would be in actively worse shape on Linux.
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And they could be up to date for many, many, many years if Linux was installed on those, instead.
Well, if by "many, many, many" you mean "about five". Red Hat provides longer support terms, but not for free.
And then after those years shift from a "update" path to an "upgrade" path and have many years more.
True, sort of. Assuming the upgrade works, which it often does... but not always.
I'm no Windows fanboy, in fact the last version of Windows I used was Windows 2000. I switched to Linux completely by mid-2001 and I've never looked back. But it's really not as rosy as you paint it. The commercial OSes (Windows and OS X) actually do a much better job of delivering long-term support and (in the c
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>"Well, if by "many, many, many" you mean "about five". Red Hat provides longer support terms, but not for free."
Yes. Maybe I put too many "many's" in there :) But then you can do in-place upgrades. I have done that multiple times with Mint on different systems and it has worked perfectly every time. Although I am not waiting the full X years before doing so.
>"True, sort of. Assuming the upgrade works, which it often does... but not always."
Probably better than MS-Windows does in-place upgrades, t
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Probably better than MS-Windows does in-place upgrades, though
I have no knowledge of that, for which I'm happy. But... Windows 10 was released in 2015 and will apparently be supported through late 2027. Outside of RHEL no Linux distro comes close.
Thank you Microsoft (Score:5, Insightful)
for screwing your OS so badly and making me move to Linux, I'm far happier and I miss nothing, thanks to all the awesome software that is either native (Kate) or cross-platform (JetBrains) or is used as a bridge to windows software (Wine et al). The only thing you're extending is your pointless hopes for recovery from this unparalled idiotic move to force people to 11.
hot garbage (Score:2)
Microsoft: You really need to protect yourself from our hot garbage!
Too late! (Score:2, Interesting)
That PC has already been converted to Linux.
Bifurcation needed (Score:2)
Seems like Microsoft needs to bifurcate windows os. One version with legacy support, and a second with a completely new code based that ditches legacy technologies completely, improves security/stability, etc. If it predates 2010 or 2020, then itâ(TM)s out.
That's really good news for me (Score:2)
Windows 10 has being slowly enshittified, but Windows 11 is a turd on fire since the beginning. /. and some other places says things like Wayland sucks, SystemD is canc
So even being a die hard Windows user, I'm very tempted in switching to Linux.
But there are some reasons that stops me. Many games I play that can't run on Linux. And I have a NVidia GPU (RTX 3060), which has poor support on Linux (AFAIK).
Another reason is analysis paralysis. I just can't make my mind on what distro I get. See, people here on
Re: That's really good news for me (Score:2)
If you are going to switch to Linux, be diligent to make sure all your data is saved on a remote machine you don't use that often that is on the network. Then you can switch your working machine at will, because you probably will anyway.
Worked for a company run XP on equipment.... (Score:2)
Modern Linux distros are getting bloated ;) (Score:2)
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xack [slashdot.org]: “The unemployment crisis plus ram prices means that people are stuck on old computers for longer than they would like, and yes we would all like the penguin to come to the rescue but modern Linux distros are getting bloated too with Wayland and Flatpaks. So we are kind of stuck with Wi
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I'm not going to run it but people have said the kernel handles realtime needs much better than 10.
I do wonder how much of the bloatware needs to be disabled to actually realize that, though.
Re:I just wish they'd quit calling it an OS upgrad (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not going to run it but people have said the kernel handles realtime needs much better than 10.
That's the thing, there are a bunch of legitimate improvements to Windows 11. They're just all very obscure, hard to explain things hidden away in the kernel that most users will either never encounter or never even notice.
The things they will notice are the far worse task bar, the randomly missing features that were removed for no apparent reason, the higher hardware requirements, the constant nagging to use new Windows features, the existing features that have been randomly changed for no readily apparent reason, and the new features that are too buggy to use, like HDR support or dynamic refresh rates.
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There's a very simple way to find out. Just type this one command into a terminal:
systemd-analyze blame
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The fact that I can run the same apps on a newer version of Windows tells me that the OS hasn't really been upgraded.
Probably the dumbest words ever put to text. Backwards compatibility has always been a thing with upgrades. Windows 11 is not forwards compatible from Windows 10.
Even so... (Score:5, Insightful)
Microsoft should be sued into oblivion for the amount of e-waste it created from perfectly good machines that were not compatible with its latest OS, after it ended official support for its prior OS.
Re:Even so... (Score:5, Insightful)
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The required TPM chips have a unique fingerprint. This was never about security. It's always been about tracking, and up until last year, that tracking was mostly just to sell better targeting for ads.
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Re: Even so... (Score:2)
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It's not about security: it's about ending piracy. There's no way bootlegged versions of Windows can be installed on this
On the plus side - yeah, there is one - I had one laptop of mine completely wiped a few years ago, and then Windows was reinstalled. Getting my data was no issue, since it was all backed up, but there was the question of reinstalling MS Office - Home & Student, of which I had a copy. The shop where I turned in the computer to repair had no issues reinstalling it, since the TPM to
A more advanced baseline has some merit ... (Score:2)
there is no reason to require TPM and advanced processor features.
I have a i7 gen 6 system. It's about 10 years old. Its had one memory upgrade, several GPU upgrades, and its HD replaced with a M2 SSD over time. It was a still a perfectly good system for both development and gaming. I am sad I could not upgrade it and continue using it. Last summer I built a i7 gen 14 system for Win11. I absolutely understand the feeling of being forced to prematurely upgrade.
That said, I kind of also see why Microsoft would want a modernized baseline for reasons other than TPS. I can
Re: A more advanced baseline has some merit ... (Score:2)
How much legacy BS is baked into the cpu during fab that could be better spent on other things?
Re: A more advanced baseline has some merit ... (Score:3)
I can still boot OS/2 on my 6600k. And use a PCI SCSI controller from the 1990s. It boots Ubuntu by default. With a 112 TB ZFS array.
It has a dual boot sith Win10.
It cannot boot Win11.
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It cannot boot Win11.
There are ways around that IIRC. You can bypass the checks during installation, not sure about the details.
Re: A more advanced baseline has some merit ... (Score:2)
I know. But that really shouldn't be needed. I don't want to use those hacks and then have an update potentially break it.
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I can still boot OS/2 on my 6600k. And use a PCI SCSI controller from the 1990s.
I'm pretty sure when I checked my Intel gen 4 it had no PCI slot. Nor would it install WinXP. Perhaps with a different mainboard chipset?
I have to go back to a dual core Athlon X2 for such things.
Re: A more advanced baseline has some merit ... (Score:2)
Yours may not. But my Asus Z170-AR does have a PCI slot. And I have actually booted OS/2 on it, and restored files from DDS tapes written decades ago, through SCSI.
Might as well just go Windows ARM64 (Score:2)
How much legacy BS is baked into the cpu during fab that could be better spent on other things?
Well x86-64 supports 16- and 32-bit modes in case you need to run legacy code. Note you'll need a 32-bit OS to run 16-bit code, supposedly Win10 32-bit still does so.
x86-64 still powers up in 16-bit real mode and the boot code has to transition to 32-bit protected mode. Then the 32-bit boot code has to transition to 64-bit protected mode. There was talk of an x86-64 variant that started up in 64-bit mode and could ditch 16-bit and 32-bit code, but there was very little interest. To be honest, such backwa
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My in laws have two computers, that are very acceptable for what they do, neither can run Windows 11.
Unless these computers are more than 10 years old, they almost definitely can run W11, though they won't be inherently set up to do so.
Re: Even so... (Score:2)
Plenty of machines sold in the last 10 years have 10 yr old CPUs and can't ryn Win11.
Many 7th Gen intel and 1st Gen Ryzen were sold long after initial chip release. I bought some 6th gen intel in 2016. They are not yet 10 years old. They cannot run Win11.
Re: Even so... (Score:2)
What are you talking about? A lot of them can, M$ just keeps adding crap to each release to block them.
Re: Even so... (Score:2)
Win11 explicitly removed support for Ryzen 1 and 6th/7th gen intel. There may be hacks to force them, but they aren't officially supported. It's not only about TPM but also compiled instruction set in binaries.
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I bought some 6th gen intel in 2016. They are not yet 10 years old. They cannot run Win11.
It does not matter when you bought them. It matters when they were designed and manufactured. 6th gen is an 11yr old chip - doesn't matter if you've got a fresh one still in the box. I don't care if you bought one this year.
Re: Even so... (Score:2)
So, you don't care about the environment. Got it.
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The environment has nothing to do with software development lifetime cycles. There is life for old tech, but it's not going to be (nor should it be) one specific version of Windows forever.
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Well, no one does. I don't even use Windows anymore - more because my wants and needs have changed and Windows can't fulfill them, less because of their fuckery. But people get mad at Microsoft for the stupidest bullshit. Windows 10 is 11 years old. Apple does the exact same shit, but worse - they regularly drop support for 7 to 8+ year old hardware for new OS releases. Microsoft cannot keep making Windows the "forever backwards compatible but also modern" operating system. Windows has been overbloated for
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Sure there is - the hardware they paid for was already "old" at the time of purchase. When it was bought never matters.
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it's all artificial restriction, by proof that Linux and Unix don't need the same kind of violation to run.
Of course it's an artificial restriction. That's why there are "working" hacks around the restrictions. But it's also two clearly different models. Microsoft is a business. Linux/Unix is not a business. Windows exists to make Microsoft money. Most Linux distros do not exist to make someone money.
Since C-8 is now a reality, Anyone who runs Windows in Canada is an idiot.
Since C-8 only applies to "critical infrastructure", I don't see how that is relevant to any regular Canadian citizens. Also, Windows is no more vulnerable than anything else that isn't secured properly.
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C-8 allows the government to
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For instance, when was the last time a Unix / Linux update bricked UEFI's to the point you need a chip programmer to write the UEFI back to the chip? When was the last time a Unix or Linux update enabled drive level encryption, silently, then lost the key? Those are two reoccurring, and serious bugs on Windows, that have never been solved.
Couldn't tell you, because I've also never had either of these happen to me (when I still used Windows) or any other Windows users I know, so they clearly aren't that common.
C-8 allows the government to throw down secret gag orders to harvest your data.
Any data they could be collecting would be from the critical infrastructure of Canada (i.e. your TSP), but C-8 doesn't even do data collection. Microsoft isn't a Canadian company nor does Microsoft (directly) have anything to do with Canada's critical infrastructure. C-22 is what is possibly fucked up, which allows them to get any subsc
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I don't believe Microsoft would
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They're not a market leader, that's what everyone gets wrong. If you only consider the desktop, then sure, I think they have ~70%
Considering we are talking about desktop OSes, as that is what Windows mainly is, yeah, they lead the market.
You don't see Windows on the Server, Edge, IoT, Network, Embedded Device, Mobile, HPC, and other areas.
Well, yes, we do. But not a significant majority like desktop.
I don't believe Microsoft would fight the government, I just don't.
Great. Because they wouldn't. Because they don't need to. Because these laws don't target Microsoft or the data they collect in any way, shape, or form.
It's simple enough to route your data over multiple networks, and protocols.
On any OS.
It's easy to run a locked down Linux or Unix, I like OpenBSD
It's also easy to lock down Windows.
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There isn't really anything to agree/disagree on, as most of these things aren't opinions. The facts are the facts and are immutable. These laws have nothing to do with Windows (or any OS) and any data collected by them. Microsoft is a business and Windows is a product.
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Microsoft could segment their market into two and solve this
- 32-bit version - reintroduce Windows 7, 32-bit, make its top requirements that of legacy PCs and make that available forever. Obvious limits - 4GB RAM, 128GB storage, legacy hardware. No AI capabilities
- 64-bit version - guaranteed not to be compatible. But port it to the existing platforms that want it - be it Snapdragon, RISC-V, et al and provide an option of either WIndows 10 or 7, depending on whether it has touch interface,...
That w
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- 32-bit version - reintroduce Windows 7, 32-bit, make its top requirements that of legacy PCs and make that available forever. Obvious limits - 4GB RAM, 128GB storage, legacy hardware. No AI capabilities
This is just hands down a completely stupid idea. Why would Microsoft spend the money to do that? Why would they pay people to continue maintaining it?
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Let's use your example, you bought an electric Mustang. If the electric Mustang can plug into any electrical port to charge, providing something reasona
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However, if you're missing the hardware that shouldn't cause any issue, just disable those features.
Yeah just disable security features.
That's engineering 101
Engineering 101 is releasing a product to a minimum specification. That your idea of minimum is lower than what they want to deliver is your problem not their's.
If you have to use a special Ford only outlet
Congrats you didn't understand my comment. There's nothing Microsoft only about what Microsoft is doing. They are implementing something industry standard. Incidentally guess what: When people buy an EV and charge at home they absolutely end up having to buy associated hardware for it.
The proof you don't need all the junk of Windows 11, Linux, and Unix, which constitutes a conservative 85% of all computers, work fine regardless if you have TPM or not.
Objectively false given the s
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Not Microsoft's problem that manufacturers use shitty parts. TPMs have been included on all standard motherboards for over a decade.
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Not Microsoft's problem that manufacturers use shitty parts. TPMs have been included on all standard motherboards for over a decade.
I have TPM disabled in BIOS to ensure it can never be used by Windows. I don't want dependencies on specific motherboards or to have random firmware updates blow the TPM and with it whatever keys are stored there.
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That's a great way of advertising to the world you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
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That's a great way of advertising to the world you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
What was said that was wrong or clueless? Did you have anything something substantive to say?
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All of it. It doesn't require specific motherboards, TPMs are also built in to all CPUs from the last decade, and the firmware for TPMs are rarely touched.
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All of it. It doesn't require specific motherboards
Of course it does. TPM keys are stored in HARDWARE onboard a specific motherboard. This creates unnecessary and unwanted dependency on specific hardware.
TPMs are also built in to all CPUs from the last decade, and the firmware for TPMs are rarely touched.
On my PC the TPM is wiped whenever a BIOS update is installed. This behavior is extremely common.
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Of course it does. TPM keys are stored in HARDWARE onboard a specific motherboard. This creates unnecessary and unwanted dependency on specific hardware.
It does not create a dependency on "specific" hardware. It doesn't matter what motherboard or CPU you use.
On my PC the TPM is wiped whenever a BIOS update is installed. This behavior is extremely common.
Yes. And completely normal. A BIOS update changes the firmware, which changes checksums and hashes, so the TPM has to invalidate during that or you'd be locked out of you data (if using BitLocker or similar). Regardless, BIOS updates do not happen often nor need to happen often, so this is a ridiculous point all around, and Windows will automatically reclaim and reinitialize the TPM on reboot. The worst
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There is a socket for a TPM on my 2019 motherboard, but it's not included.
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If you bought your components in 2019 you already have a TPM. No need to buy one to plug into your motherboard. Just go enable the CPU's in the BIOS.
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Waste is waste. All computers eventually end up as it
The Lenovo laptop I type this on is 15 years old, it runs Linux and I use it every day.
I have 3 perfectly working computers (two Sharp MZ-80K's [computinghistory.org.uk] and a HP-85 [curiousmarc.com], none of those run anything by Microsoft) in the room here that are over 46 years -almost half a century- old. My HP-1660C logic analyzer is about 30 years old. My Wyse WY-60 terminal is 40 years old (connected to a Udoo Bolt V8 [udoo.org] computer from 2019 which I also use every day, and which is also running Linux -- Windows 11 is not supported on it even if
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The Lenovo laptop I type this on is 15 years old, it runs Linux and I use it every day.
So what you're saying is your laptop runs just fine despite Windows not working on it?
Thanks for making my point for me.
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It is the difference between buying shoes for children and buying shoes for adults. Children outgrow shoes, adults wear-out shoes. For desktops: the 8-bit, 16-bit, even 32-bit were the "children shoes" that we rapidly outgrew. The 64-bit processors are the "adult shoes", and won't need to be replaced until they stop working.
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It is the difference between buying shoes for children and buying shoes for adults. Children outgrow shoes, adults wear-out shoes. For desktops: the 8-bit, 16-bit, even 32-bit were the "children shoes" that we rapidly outgrew. The 64-bit processors are the "adult shoes", and won't need to be replaced until they stop working.
To the degree that's true, it's nothing inherent in the processor generations. What's happened is that Moore's Law has slowed dramatically. If there were as much performance difference between a 2026 CPU and a 2020 CPU as there was between a 2006 CPU and a 2000 CPU, we'd still be feeling the need to upgrade regularly.
Consider, for example that between 2000 and 2006, clock speeds tripled, CPUs went from single to dual core, and instructions per clock went up. A 2006 flagship CPU was ~20X faster than a 2
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The Lenovo laptop I type this on is 15 years old, it runs Linux and I use it every day.
No the difference is buying shoes for style. Your computer works just fine. Just look at the poster above you, he said he has a 15 year computer still running fine. How could this be possible if Microsoft turned it into e-waste? Oh right: Somehow Slashdot changed from a place that supported alternative OS and freedom to run what you want on your hardware to a place that predicates its argument on the idea that all computers need to run Windows.
Fucking shame on you and your 6 digit UID. I expect you in parti
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It may not really be needed, the more time that passes with no new features and only security updates, the more solid it will be.
And they're not really an OS company anymore. They don't need to keep pushing people who don't want it at Windoze 11.
Re:As expected. (Score:4, Insightful)
The guys who have purchased W10 extended support, won't be migrating to 11 any time soon.
Better, for Microsoft, for sell them W10 subscriptions until the customer buys new hardware. Because ending W10 support would send them straight to Linux, or Apple, both of which compare more favorably to Windows than they did 5 years ago.
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Probably. Their software is getting worse and worse and everybody hates being pushed into AI use. The last thing they need is a global security catastrophe from Win10 users.
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Given that they've been doing this shit from the 1980s, they'll just be continuing it till pigs fly.