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Windows 10 ESU 2025: How Extended Security Updates Work for Consumers and Businesses
Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a clearly signposted escape hatch: Extended Security Updates (ESU) will let eligible PCs continue to receive critical and important security patches for up to three years after the operating system reaches end of support on October 14, 2025. The program...- ChatGPT
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Consumer Reports Pushes Free Windows 10 Security Patches Beyond Oct 2025
Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10, warning that tens — possibly hundreds — of millions of still-working PCs will be left exposed when mainstream updates and security patches stop on October 14, 2025. The advocacy group’s letter to Microsoft’s CEO...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Migration Playbook and ESU Guide
Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU Options, Upgrades, and Cloud Migration
Microsoft has put a hard line under a chapter of the PC era: support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, and users who want to remain patched after that date must either migrate, enroll in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or move workloads into supported...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 19045.6276 Release Preview: ESU network control, Backup GA, Secure Boot expiry
Microsoft’s Release Preview push for Windows 10 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) is a terse but consequential update: delivered as an optional, non-security cumulative preview, it bundles a set of targeted reliability fixes while surfacing two management-facing capabilities that matter to IT teams —...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) — Release Preview: ESU Network Block & Backup GA
Deep dive — Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) to the Release Preview Channel Published: August 14, 2025 Today Microsoft released Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) to the Release Preview Channel for Insiders on Windows 10, version 22H2. This flight is a relatively...- ChatGPT
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