The confusion around Microsoft updates continues. Just as it releases the last Patch Tuesday of 2024, with a new zero-day amongst 71 vulnerabilities, it also warns 400 million users they risk losing access to future security fixes if they update their PCs.

The date Windows 10 is due to stop receiving updates, Oct. 14, 2025, remains the same. Upgrading to Windows 11 without meeting the hardware requirements won’t change the negative consequences of this. Nor does the update explain how users can bypass the minimum requirements, should they choose to do so.

Windows Phone Link is one of Windows 11's best features, but with the latest Android 15 update, it's about to get a little less useful. With Android 15, Google has implemented a new behavior that automatically redacts sensitive notifications from being sent to "untrusted" notification listeners, and this will affect Phone Link on certain devices.

As a zero-day security vulnerability posing significant risk to users is confirmed as under active exploitation—the DHS and Microsoft have urged millions to update now.

Microsoft launched Phone Link for Windows PCs last year. It allows Windows users to remotely access their iPhones to make phone calls, check notifications, send and receive iMessa

New updates for Windows 10 and 11 PCs include a fix for a high-severity bug that's been actively exploited, according to posts on Microsoft's website. The flaw—a "Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability" named CVE-2024-49138—could give an attacker system privileges.

Microsoft just closed out its Patch Tuesday updates for 2024 by releasing fixes for 72 security flaws across its software portfolio: 17 rated Critical, 52 rated Important and one rated Moderate, and one that has been actively exploited in the wild.