Microsoft has given itself a seemingly impossible race against time. With almost exactly a year to run before Windows 10’s unpopular end-of-life hits users in October 2025, Windows 11 is still failing to hook the hundreds of millions more users it needs to prevent a generational support nightmare coming true.

Version 24H2 adds the sudo command for developers and alerts users when an application accesses their physical location.

The Start menu has a big change for those using Microsoft’s Phone Link software. The Windows 11 2024 update adds a side panel to the Start menu that provides information on your phone’s battery status and notifications as well as quick access to messages, calls, and photos. The floating panel is a neat addition for Phone Link users.

With few exceptions, the updates all leverage AI in an effort to create a more personalized and powerful experience for users.

The latest Windows 11 update can bring more than the fixes it promised. Microsoft warns it can make your system reboot again and again.

The KB5043145 Preview Update causes some Windows 11 computers to reboot multiple times or experience BSODs after installation. Microsoft has released an automatic fix and asks users to restart their PCs a few times to get it.

Microsoft has today announced the general availability of Windows 11 version 24H2, also known as the Windows 11 2024 Update. This is the release that Copilot+ PCs have been running since the summer, and it's now beginning to roll out to the rest of the Windows 11 userbase.

Late last week Microsoft released the September 2024 KB5043145 preview update and already the Redmond-tech giant is warning that some Windows 11 PCs are being plagued with reboot loops or might freeze into blue screens.