Windows 10: Asus echoes Microsoft, says dump Windows 10 for Windows 11 ASAP

Windows 10’s end-of-support date isn’t a surprise anymore, and after Microsoft’s numerous hints at upgrading to Windows 11, Asus also shares a similar viewpoint. The renowned OEM recently published a post about the necessity of the Windows 11 upgrade and how Copilot PCs will play an important role in the coming years.

The support document, published on May 19 and spotted by Windows Latest today, starts off with the obvious note of Windows 10’s deprecation and how upgrading to the new OS can help you stay protected. The update window closes after October 14, 2025, and Microsoft will not release any feature or security updates after that.

Thereafter, the Asus describes the future of Windows, aka Copilot. Like always, it’s the same tone regarding the usefulness of AI in daily life and how you can accelerate your work with it. Generating images, summarising text, finding anything with Recall, and a few more quirks.

Asus already has a few products with NPU that meet the official requirement of Copilot+ PCs, and you can make an upgrade if you like.

However, projecting Copilot as the centerpiece of the OS doesn’t make any sense. Copilot+ PCs cover a minuscule share of the complete Windows 11 market share, and those who use the OS without it, including us, aren’t exactly suffering. A computer OS needs to function well in core tasks before focusing on additional features like AI integration.

Despite the huge push, Copilot remains a niche product. You can access Copilot via a browser, just like any other AI assistant. The only thing you’ll miss is local AI processing, which is limited to a few tricks as of now.



Asus has a full set of Copilot+ PCs that offer Intel, AMD, and Snapdragon chips with a capable NPU onboard. These PCs are efficient and offer decent performance, but lack graphical power and are costlier than a regular Windows 11 PC.

A costly affair


Asus, or any other OEMs’ Copilot+ PCs, cost a lot more than any entry/mid-level Windows 11 PC. You can still use Windows 11 comfortably with that same PC, and even organizations would invest in the non-Copilot devices because they’re cheaper to implement.

Microsoft is quite stern with the Extended Security Updates program, and we doubt anyone would want to stay on it for more than a year.

So, upgrades will commence this year and gradually push everyone out of the soon-to-be defunct Windows 10.

For consumer edition users, there’s no other alternative than running Windows 11 with the help of bypass tricks or switching to Linux to keep their PC alive, for a few more years. The latter is a better option because we aren’t sure how long Microsoft will allow such hacks to work.

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Microsoft Botches Up UEFI Support for Windows 7 on ASUS Motherboards



Microsoft suggests updating to Windows 10 to patch Windows 7

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MICROSOFT HAS confirmed a potentially lappy-borking problem that it won't be fixing, because Windows 7.

Woody Leonhard, the respected Windows columnist, points to a problem involving Asus motherboards, which also appear rebadged in a variety of other manufacturers' machines, and the activation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 7 in a patch KB3133977.

Short version: install update, welcome to Borksville, population you.

Both Asus and Microsoft acknowledged the problem. Microsoft entitled the article "BitLocker can't encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2", but we prefer to just call it "Trevor for brevity."

The firm's advice was that it's an optional update, leave well alone, you'll be fine, or alternatively turn secure boot off.

Then Microsoft did a silly, silly thing.

It moved the update from 'optional' to 'recommended' and anyone who reads this site regularly will know what happens when Microsoft does this. That's right boys and girls - it makes it automatically install, unless you've specifically told your machine not to.

So now, if you have one of the affected motherboard and you keep your security updates automatic like wot Microsoft recommends, then your machine will stop working properly.

We should add it's not permanently bricked, but it will take some mucking about in the BIOS to fix and that's a pain even for an experienced computer user.

Microsoft has, by offering a workaround, suggested heavily that it won't be fixing the problem, though we have asked the question, so expect a response in about a fortnight.

But the real kicker is this piece of advice: "Note The Secure Boot feature is supported in Windows 10. To learn more about the security advantages of this feature and about the upgrade path from Windows 7 to Windows 10, go to the following Windows website"

Holy toledo, this company really knows how to rub people up the wrong way.

After all - if the advice is to manually avoid the update or move to a version of the operating system where there's virtually no control over updates, then Microsoft is dealing in massive contradictions.

A more cynical site would suggest that it's yet another example of Microsoft running Windows 7 into the ground and adding built in obsolescence to encourage quicker updates. But we're not that sort of site.

Its the patching to force secure boot that is the problem win 7 does not support secure boot
hence it borks systems and well microsofts answer is Cactus >your Asshole > insert

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Microsoft Selects Dolby Audio for Windows 10

it would've been great if microsoft added HEVC decoders, LAV filters along with other codecs with Windows 10, and developing WMP to be better than VLC, KMPlayer and such sorts of media players.

Nevertheless, this is good step for microsoft, by far.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.