The clock is ticking for Windows troubleshooters, plus Microsoft's preparing a new OS release
As the arrival of the next version of Windows 11 looms, it is also time to prepare a not-so-fond farewell to the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool and its troubleshooters.that its legacy inbox troubleshooters – such as the keyboard and speech troubleshooters – would be retired and, with the next release of Windows 11 soon to arrive, now is as good a time as any to hold hands, gather around the campfire and say goodbye.
While many readers will be pleased about the deprecation, malware authors will be sorry to see them go. A number of high-profile attacks, including the infamous exploit, made use of flaws in the service in order to execute malicious code. The announcement that Microsoft was killing off MSDT, therefore, made a lot of sense and wasn't hugely surprising.Microsoft's plan is to redirect users attempting to run the legacy troubleshooters to its new Get Help platform.
The company noted that half of the built-in troubleshooters have already been redirected, while the rest will be retired and removed with the next release of Windows. This means that by next year, according to Microsoft's timeline, the redirections will be complete and all troubleshooters removed. Finally, in 2025, the MSDT platform itself will be stripped from Windows.
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