Remember Windows 11 SE? I didn’t, until I made my regular news rounds this morning. But it looks like the stripped-down, low-power version of Windows, originally intended to counter Chromebooks in the lucrative education market, is making a final bow soon. Microsoft says the operating system is getting its last update later this year, and will lose full support in 2026.

That’s according to an updated Microsoft support page (spotted by German site Dr. Windows ), which says that version 24H2 will be the last for Windows SE. All updates for the OS, “including software updates, technical assistance, and security fixes,” will be shut down in October of 2026. If that date sounds familiar, it’s the new, adjusted end-of-life date for the long-suffering consumer version of Windows 10, to

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