The software-as-a-service model that Microsoft adopted with Windows 10 marked an important change, not only in terms of the update model, which became much more dynamicand also much more complicated, but also in everything related to its support.
Updates came to Windows 10 much more frequently, introducing various new features and improvements, and also extending the support cycle of said operating system. This had a positive impact in many aspects, but it also has a negative side, and that is that support cycles are shortened and this it causes Windows 10 to become “obsolete” and without official support.
This is precisely what has happened with Windows 10 in its version 21H1, an update that hit the market in May 2021, and that as of today it will no longer be supported by Microsoft. If we want to continue receiving support and updates, we must install version 21H2, which will be supported until June 2023.
The fact that a version of Windows 10 is out of support doesn’t mean it stops workingand we won’t have any problems in the short or medium term either, since in the end it’s a penultimate generation operating system that was last updated very recently, so we’ll have a considerable margin to prepare for the installation of the next update.
It goes without saying that if we update to Windows 11 we will also solve this issue, although said operating system maintains the update model and the support cycles delimited by them, so we will not get rid of the “problem”. Please note that Windows 11 has higher requirements than Windows 10, and that this means that it is not available to those users who have older computers.
