TEH 271: Extensions, Increases, RAM shortages, ClickFix danger, Use AI for Fun

So this week I wanted to start with just a couple of quickies, um, on, uh, Microsoft Windows.

Um, what I just told my newsletter folks, uh, with the newsletter that came out today, is that I typically don't do breaking news, but this one kinda surprised me and a lot of people.

Um, Microsoft very quietly changed, um, a deadline.

Uh, are you...

You're aware of the Windows 10 ESU, right? Extended service-

Yeah

... extended security updates, right?

Yes.

Um, you know, Windows 10's end of life was supposed to be last October, and then they said, "Well, you know, you can sign up for the ESU and it'll be this October." What they quietly did was they changed the last digit of the year that it expires.

It used to expire in 2026.

It now expires in 2027.

So basically they've extended the extended security updates for another year for Windows 10.

Um, there's of course lots of speculation on why they might do such a thing, uh, but the fact is if you're using Windows 10 and you were a little concerned about the end of support date coming up in October, you've got another year.

Then the other one was that in Windows 11 land we're starting to hear rumblings of Windows 11 26H2.

What Windows moved to, or Microsoft moved to for quote unquote major, uh, Windows updates is a yearly cycle.

They were doing half-yearly with Windows 10, which is why there's an H2, um, because there used to be H1s.

Uh, but now with Windows 11 there's only H2s.

The speculation's that it'll be out for real in September.

Once again, there's lots of speculation as to what it may or may not contain.

Um, but at least there are starting to be rumblings of it, um, showing up, and I suspect that the Windows Insider, uh, folks are probably going to start seeing builds of that within the next month or two.

Be interesting to see what they do and if they actually stick to their, I don't even wanna call it a promise, they made some statements to the effect that, uh, they were going to try and focus on fixing some of the many concerns that people have had about Windows 11 from a, um, a feature standpoint where features went away, to a stability standpoint, to who knows whatever else.

So we'll see if they actually end up giving, uh, 26H2 a little bit more of a consumer focus rather than trying to shovel in every, every new feature they can think of.

So that's the, like I said, that's a quickie Windows update I thought people would be interested in hearing about.

Yeah.