On October 13, 2026, support ended for Windows 11’s “24H2” version (Home and Pro editions). While Windows 10 was given a one-year Extended Security Updates (ESU) program even for individual users, Windows 11’s 24H2 simply expired on its normal upgrade-cycle schedule. The end of support doesn’t mean your PC stops working right away, but from now on, no fixes will be issued even if vulnerabilities are discovered. Reactions on the 5ch thread were split — some debated the move to drop older CPU generations from Windows 11 support, while others clashed over whether to keep using Windows 10 or push forward with updates.
I switched to Windows 11 and thought I’d be set for a good while… but.
Actually, on October 13, support ended for a Windows 11 version called “24H2.” This applies to the consumer Home and Pro editions.
Don’t worry — your PC won’t suddenly stop working just because support has ended. However, going forward, even if security issues are found, no update will arrive to fix them.
Source: gizmodo.jp / Original article here
Golden Gate
Yeah, pretty much.
Even Windows 11's internal version number is 10
"It might be the last time, so I want to tell you everything."
Microsoft's floundering isn't new, but yeah, this is hopeless.
I had a Windows update show up recently (well, a bit ago), and I just followed the prompts and updated — now video streaming and stuff is obviously choppy and laggy, it's the worst.
When I looked into it, people were saying saved images get scanned, something about OneDrive, and that it's better not to update.
I wish I hadn't updated.
What do I do now?
Apparently some drivers die once you move to 26H2… that's an internal (work) headache we're dealing with.
That's scary.
Tons of them — clueless about the world.
Mine had the CPU fan break.
Re: #31
Even on Windows 11, if you're on 21H2 or earlier, you can't set up the trendy passkey feature.
Though there doesn't seem to be any hardware limit stopping you from upgrading all the way to 26H2, so that's fine.
But my very first self-built desktop, from late 2018, has too weak a CPU — Windows 11 won't even install, which is rough.
Even though there's nothing actually wrong with it to use.
Lasting 10 years isn't bad at all.
These days it's all those paper-thin laptops that look like the hinge is about to snap.
Anyone running Win11 for actual work has my respect — it's that bad.
You can set it to show up next to the power icon in the taskbar settings or whatever, so that's what I do.
Oh, hello there, this is "Demon-Strange-Black-Hearted-Unjust" Corp speaking (a kanji pun spelling out "Microsoft" with characters meaning roughly demon/black-hearted/unjust) — got a problem with that?
Dropping support for 7th-gen CPUs is brutal 😭💔
I've personally handled close to 300 used PCs so far, and for some reason 7th-gen-and-earlier machines always seem to have been used roughly — cracked plastic, broken buttons, bad USB ports, way more often than newer ones.
Before the cutoff was announced, you almost never saw 8th-gen-and-later machines on the used market.
That's because even beat-up old machines could still run Windows, so people kept forcing themselves to use them — nobody bothered buying the latest generation.
If they hadn't cut off the old ones, this kind of junk would just keep flooding the market, and in the end it'd hurt Microsoft's reputation and sales too.
In a good way, by clearly saying "anything before such-and-such generation isn't supported on 11," there's less junk around, and it actually helps keep the market healthy.
The cutoff was announced years in advance, and they even gave a two-year extension on top of that — so complaining about it now seems kind of unreasonable.
My 4th-gen laptop is running great.
My secondary 11th-gen laptop's Type-C port is a bit loose though.
It's simply down to age and how many units were out there.
Even with 10, if you refuse security updates, support isn't possible either.
If you update normally you'd be on 26H2 by now.
If your CPU is too old, it won't let you update.
I was still stuck on 22H2, but I asked Gemini and it taught me a workaround, so I jumped straight up to 26H2.
Is that so. Amazing!
Make the announcement clearer!
I just started updating after seeing this thread.
Actually, most people do know.
That's a problem! Is it gonna turn into a virus launchpad?!
You're not allowed to bury the PC in your coffin.
Windows 7 is that chronically-ill trash OS where svchost periodically pegs CPU usage at 100%.
Don't go worshipping that thing.
So should we go with the worst one, 8, then? lol
No way lol.
Win10 wastes more CPU anyway.
Edge even runs in the background by default and eats up memory — might as well be a virus.
If I'd been a year later, I might never have been able to afford a replacement.
Should've just waited for Win12.
Don't people buy a new PC like once every 3-4 years anyway?
Even if you feel safe now, the next replacement (or extra-purchase) cycle will be here before you know it.
Background and key points of this topic
Windows 11 gets major updates (24H2, 25H2, and so on) roughly every six months to a year, and each version has its own individual support end date. The end of 24H2 affects Home/Pro users who haven’t kept up with subsequent major updates. Windows 10, meanwhile, after its regular support ended in October 2025, was given a one-year conditional Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for individual users — which is what the thread title’s “extended by a year” refers to. Opinions in the thread were split between posts praising the move to drop older CPU generations like 7th-gen-and-earlier from Windows 11 support as “a policy that helps keep the market healthy” (post 59), and complaints about insufficient notice and the hassle of migrating (posts 40, 55). Note that the hardware exclusion is actually a separate mechanism based on requirements like TPM 2.0, and it’s easy to confuse it with this 24H2 support end date.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[OS] Windows 10’s support got extended by a year, but part of Windows 11 has reached end of support.”
