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.

The endless cat-and-mouse game between Microsoft and the community of devoted Windows hackers just took another turn.

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