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https://endoflife.date/windows

OK, there's extended support for security updates for Win10 22H2 until October 2028, but other than that, Windows 10 is going the way of the deprecated and unsupported.

And the last Win11 (23H2) that can still boot on pre-SSE4.2 CPUs is going next month. I'm feeling old.

I will NEVER understand why people are so focused on WHATEVER "support" is supposed to mean.

I have to ask, are these so-focused types also the types that BUY "warranty plans" when they buy electronics?
'cause maybe THAT is the underlying notion here, being that I also NEVER buy "warranty plans".
And my electronics ALWAYS outlast, BY FAR, that "warranty period".

Besides being hot topic in some places and me wanting to break silence with something, it comes with eventual newer versions of programs stopping working in part or entirely.

I tried using Performance profiler today for the first time in Visual Studio 2022 on work laptop still on older Win10 1809. It refused to start and suggested repair install. Visual Studio Standard Collector Service 150 refused to start. Reason, long story short, it crapped out after being unable to enable RedirectionGuard, some security mitigation available in newer Windows versions. I opened the service's EXE with x64dbg, patched a single conditional jump instruction to become unconditional and now the profiler works.

No idea if there's anything for Teams, this doesn't work anymore. I know you have browser instance running for it in any case, but I prefer to not have these things in actual web browser and at least some resemblance of desktop application, even if the only reminder is tray icon with the context menu.

May have to rush to Windows 11 some day anyway, but not today, not yet!

Meanwhile, running Win11 at home which was supposed to be just temporary testbed for old new sound card, but don't feel like swapping things around. I know, I make no sense.