Formally, Home windows 10 died final month, a little bit over a decade after its preliminary launch. However the outdated working system's enduring recognition has prompted Microsoft to vow between one and three years of Prolonged Safety Updates (ESUs) for a lot of Home windows 10 PCs. For people with Home windows 10 PCs, it's comparatively straightforward to get an extra yr of updates for gratis.
Or a minimum of, it's imagined to be. Bugs initially identified by Windows Latest had been maintaining some Home windows 10 PCs from efficiently enrolling within the ESU program, stopping these PCs from signing as much as seize the free updates. And since every Home windows 10 PC needs to be manually enrolled in this system, a damaged enrollment course of additionally meant damaged safety updates.
To repair the issues, Microsoft launched an replace for Home windows 10 22H2 (KB5071959) this week that each acknowledges and fixes a problem “the place the enrollment wizard could fail throughout enrollment.” It's being supplied to all Home windows 10 PCs no matter whether or not they're enrolled within the ESU program “because it resolves a problem that was stopping affected prospects from receiving important safety updates.”
