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Windows 10 IoT LTSC 2021...'has reached end of support' warning (?!) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hi guys! So...yeah, I have a W10 IoT LTSC permanently activated via massgrave getting this warning. Any idea what's up? Shouldn't it continue chugging along for a good few years more?

EDIT: This is a VM, as I run mainly Linux on everything if I can avoid it. I'm just feating there might be more like this.

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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. This is Win 10 IoT LTSC 21H2. Which should have updates all the way to January 13, 2032, if I'm not wrong. The HWID license is activated and attached to the VM. But...I'm getting a warning in Windows Update today.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but there were methods for activating it with a trial activation code that only lasted a year I think, a method for activating ut offline permanently, and also a method for activating it using an annual reactivating activation code that, again *******was set it and forget it for as long as windows 11 enterprise will be supported

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. It's a permanent HWID license, associated to the hardware. No renewal needed, and it's permanently associated to the hardware ID. If I reinstall the OS on the VM, it will reactivate without asking. And yet.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, not to be a dick but, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and expires after the year like the trial activation method... it must be a free trial duck lol. /s

Aka im all out of ideas or recommendations.