Microsoft is forcing you to upgrade Windows 10

As Home windows 10 step by step winds down in favor of the oft-maligned Home windows 11, Microsoft is starting to scale back its assist for the older OS. Their newest transfer is to routinely improve anybody working outdated variations of Home windows 10 to 22H2, with that being the one model supported previous June 13.

After all, that is all a part of a nefarious marketing campaign to get you to board the Home windows 11 practice, however PC avid gamers have loads of causes to stay with the OS they know and love. Home windows 11 hasn’t precisely been a gaming success story, with notable bugs together with a Windows 11 update which froze AMD CPUs and a Windows 11 22H2 update causing bad GPU performance.

Final week, we reported Microsoft taking over your screen with a full-page advert for Home windows 11. This time, they’re taking an much more direct strategy: your solely selection is to improve. Based on a Microsoft Learn document:

“Home windows Replace will routinely provoke a function replace for Home windows 10 shopper units and non-managed enterprise units which can be at, or inside a number of months of, reaching finish of servicing. This retains your gadget supported and receiving month-to-month updates which can be crucial to safety and ecosystem well being.”

These utilizing 21H2 variations or older might discover themselves liable to safety vulnerabilities, and nobody needs that. We’re unsure when Microsoft will pressure you to improve, however it’ll in all probability be on or earlier than June 13.

The excellent news is that upgrading to 22H2 received’t take lengthy. Solely a few minutes, actually. Additionally, no new options have been added in comparison with the earlier model, so that you’ll barely discover it’s modified. Perhaps this pressured improve isn’t so dangerous, however we reckon it’s all a part of Microsoft’s artful plan to get you accustomed to common updates, and the eventual transfer to Home windows 11. Get a Windows 10 key earlier than it’s too late!