All change for Windows users. | AFP via Getty ImagesUpdated on May 12 as another legacy Windows issue hits users.
Microsoft is changing Windows on most PCs. Critical Secure Boot certificates will expire for the first time ever in June. First launched in 2011, this Windows change means new certificates must be installed on all devices before the deadline.
Microsoft says it is "updating the Secure Boot certificates originally issued in 2011 to ensure Windows devices continue to verify trusted boot software.”
If you bought your PC in the last two years, you’re likely already running new certificates. You can check in your Windows Security App. For all other users, the new certificates will be included in the regular monthly security updates. Users may have been updated in April, others will be updated in May.
But post April’s update, Microsoft
warned that this process might trigger additional restarts on your PC. And while this will probably happen in May, if not already, it could happen at any point over the coming months as certificates change over.
“With recent and upcoming Windows updates over the next few months,” Microsoft says, some users might experience “one additional restart during installation. This one time restart occurs after a Secure Boot certificate update is applied.”
There are other complexities as well. The Windows Update process and Windows Security App will show a PC’s Secure Boot status, with critical red warnings where user “action is needed” before the Secure Boot deadline.
And Microsoft confirms that this update is only applicable to PCs eligible for security updates. That means hundreds of millions of Windows 10 PCs will not get new Secure Boot certificates and will face additional risks next month. Ensure you enrol in Microsoft’s extended security update (ESU) program if you’re affected.
The expiration of Secure Boot certificates is not the only legacy change now affecting hundreds of millions of Microsoft users. We now know that thirty-year-old code is buried beneath the shiny Windows 11 veneer, and there is new criticism that the OS is being boosted to overcome issues in its “bloat.”
Per
Windows Latest, “Low Latency Profile is part of Microsoft’s plan to boost Windows 11 performance, which also includes optimizing legacy code and migrating more UI to WinUI 3.” Cue a “backlash over this new speed boosting trick" that has grown “loud enough ” that Microsoft has responded.
Windows Latest explains that the main complaint “is that temporarily boosting the CPU to open the Start menu is somehow ‘cheating’ or a sign of terrible software engineering.” Microsoft says that isn’t the case, and that macOS and Linux do the same. It how modern day operating systems “make apps feel fast.”
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