Microsoft just lately launched preview updates for Home windows 11 and likewise introduced that Home windows 11 25H2 is coming together with the modifications it’ll deliver. Some dynamic updates have additionally been delivered. However on high of all this, Microsoft has quietly “force-installed” one other replace on Home windows 10 and 11 PCs, in line with Neowin.
The “secret” patch with replace code KB5001716 has already arrived for some customers, however others are apparently nonetheless ready. (We now have not but found it on our personal Home windows 11 PCs.)
What’s within the KB5001716 replace?
Replace KB5001716 isn’t an “replace” within the basic sense. It’s extra of an auxiliary replace for Home windows Replace itself. The discharge observe for the patch explains how KB5001716 works:
“When this replace is put in, Home windows might try to obtain and set up characteristic updates to your system whether it is approaching or has reached the top of help in your presently put in Home windows model. Function updates provide new performance and assist hold your system safe.”
“After this replace is put in, Home windows might periodically show a notification informing you of issues which will forestall Home windows Replace from retaining your system up-to-date and guarded towards present threats. For instance, you may even see a notification informing you that your system is presently operating a model of Home windows that has reached the top of its help lifecycle, or that your system doesn’t meet the minimal {hardware} necessities for the presently put in model of Home windows.”
In different phrases, it seems the primary goal of replace KB5001716 has principally to do with the approaching finish of help for Home windows 10 and is meant to assist ship characteristic updates to PCs with Home windows variations which have already expired or will quickly expire.
What this implies for you
Microsoft just lately introduced that Home windows 10 will obtain one other 12 months of free safety updates underneath some circumstances. Nonetheless, warnings in regards to the approaching finish of help will proceed to be proven on affected Home windows PCs. Based on Microsoft, notifications will “respect full display, recreation, quiet time and focus help modes.”
Customers also can proceed to verify whether or not their {hardware} is adequate for Home windows 11 and think about switching. In the meantime, Microsoft is making an attempt to persuade customers of the improved efficiency of Home windows 11 and level out that the person expertise shouldn’t be solely safer however higher.
Should you obtain the KB5001716 replace, it means your model of Home windows will quickly expire or will now not be supported. That features variations Home windows 10 22H2 and 21H2 in addition to Home windows 11 21H2.
Additional studying: Easy methods to save your PC at Home windows 10’s finish of life
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
