Security News > 2024 > April > April 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: New and old from Microsoft

Regular patch releases will be critical to keep this product updated because it does not receive immediate security updates like its related, cloud-connected versions.

Hard to believe, Windows 11 21H2 for Education and Enterprise and Windows 11 22H2 Home and Pro are already reaching EOS on November 8th. Microsoft recently reversed its decision to end the preview updates for Windows 11 22H2 in February and announced it will continue through June.

In anticipation of all these upcoming EOS events, Microsoft is introducing some new 'nag screens' in this month's update for both operating systems and also starting to force update older versions of Windows 11 to 23H2. Microsoft offers extended security update support for Windows 10 following its end-of-life in October 2025.

April 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast Expect major updates from Microsoft across the operating systems, various versions of Office, Exchange Server, Sharepoint Server, and probably the.

The last update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader was on February Patch Tuesday so we may see a minor update this month.

Don't forget that the quarterly Oracle Critical Patch Updates are coming out on the heels of Patch Tuesday on April 16th..

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