Microsoft will stop issuing routine security and feature updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a hard cut that converts a decade of steady vendor maintenance into a single, calendar-driven risk event for hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide, and one that has provoked consumer outcry...
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Consumer Reports has formally asked Microsoft to keep delivering free security updates for Windows 10 consumers beyond the company’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing that the announced one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge and the paid options that...
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