In confirming the deployment of patch KB5001716 to Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs, Microsoft warns that “when this update is installed, Windows may attempt to download and install feature updates to your device if it is approaching or has reached the end of support for your currently installed Windows version.

Windows 10 users – and those running an out-of-date version of Windows 11 – are getting an update stealthily pushed to their PCs that will allow Microsoft to force a future update to the OS (to keep it in support), and also to nag users about support running out, too.

Microsoft mistakenly delivered the upgrade to machines running Windows Server 2022, leaving admins scrambling.

And then there’s a direct ISO download. But Microsoft has never offered anything like that for Windows 11 on Arm (or, for that matter, its predecessor, Windows 10 on Arm). If you were lucky, your PC maker provided a downloadable recovery image ...

The ISO lets you install Windows 11 24H2 in a virtual machine or directly on an Arm-based system, though your PC's age will determine how smoothly it goes.