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    Windows 10 ESU 2025-26: How to enroll, costs, and plan your migration

    Microsoft’s decision to let eligible Windows 10 users keep receiving security-only updates for a single extra year has turned a firm end-of-support deadline into a short, conditional lifeline — but it comes with precise technical gates, privacy trade-offs, and a hard expiration that should make...
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    Windows 10 September 2025 KB5065429: End of Support Looms, ESU Bridge

    Microsoft's September cumulative — KB5065429 — is rolling out now, and for millions of Windows 10 users it is both a final security lifeline and a practical checkpoint as the operating system heads to its scheduled end of support on October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Windows 10’s...
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    Migrating from Windows 10: Pick the Right Linux for Your Skill and Hardware

    If you’re planning to abandon Windows 10 when Microsoft ends support, the sensible advice is not just “pick a Linux distro” — it’s “pick the right one for your skills, hardware, and use case,” because some distributions are effectively designed to be a learning project rather than a drop-in...
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    Windows 10 ESU: One-Year Security Bridge After End of Support (22H2)

    Microsoft has fixed a last‑minute gap in the plan to keep Windows 10 secure: if you want to keep using Windows 10 beyond the official end‑of‑support date, there is now a one‑year emergency option — but it comes with strict conditions, limited scope, and a clear clock that cannot be ignored...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU Options, Upgrade to Windows 11, or Switch OS

    Microsoft's decade-long desktop workhorse is entering its final weeks of mainstream servicing as Microsoft winds down Windows 10 and prepares to stop issuing routine updates and quality-of-life fixes ahead of the platform's end-of-support deadline on October 14, 2025. This transition is not a...
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    Windows 10 End of Support Nears: Release Preview Build 19045.6388 Validates Fixes

    Microsoft has pushed another Windows 10 preview build into the Release Preview Channel as the operating system hurtles toward its firm end‑of‑support date next month, delivering a small set of stability and servicing fixes insiders and IT teams should validate now rather than later. Background...
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    Windows 10 Release Preview: Final 22H2 Update Ahead of Oct 2025 End of Support

    Microsoft pushed another small Windows 10 preview build into the Release Preview Channel this week — a terse Release Preview update described as “a small set of general improvements and fixes” and issued just weeks before Windows 10’s scheduled end-of-support date on October 14, 2025. Background...
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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...
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    KB5065429: Windows 10 ESU Enrollment & End-of-Support 2025

    Microsoft pushed Windows 10 cumulative update KB5065429 to 22H2 machines this week, a mandatory security rollup that arrives as the platform approaches its October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline — and it’s tightly linked to Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment path...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Upgrade to Windows 11 or ESU Bridge

    Microsoft’s support clock for Windows 10 has a hard stop: after October 14, 2025, Microsoft will no longer issue routine security or feature updates for Windows 10, and millions of PCs will face a growing security and compatibility risk unless owners act — by upgrading to Windows 11, enrolling...
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    Windows 10 ESU: One-Year Security Update Lifeline to Oct 2026

    Microsoft quietly built a practical pause button for millions of Windows 10 PCs: if you meet a few requirements and follow the enrollment wizard, you can receive one extra year of security updates—without paying—by using Microsoft’s built‑in backup/sync option or by redeeming Microsoft Rewards...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Upgrades, ESU, and the Open Driver Debate

    With the clock counting down to October 14, 2025, millions of PCs face a stark choice: upgrade to Windows 11, pay for a short-term safety net, or keep running an increasingly risky, unsupported Windows 10—while the debate over hardware compatibility, drivers and sustainability suddenly looks...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU, Free Enrollment Paths, and Upgrades

    Microsoft’s decision to sunset Windows 10 has moved from distant calendar noise to a pressing deadline: the OS reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is offering a limited consumer path to buy one more year of security-only updates — including a surprising set of free entry...
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    Flyoobe 1.7/1.7.284: OOBE AI Disable & Debloat for Windows 11

    Flyoobe’s latest update widens the tool’s ambitions from a niche installer bypass into a full-blown Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) surgeon’s kit: starting with version 1.7 (hotfixed to 1.7.284), the popular Flyby11 / Flyoobe project now ships an OOBE page that searches for and disables Copilot and...
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    Windows 11 OOBE Toolkit: Bypass, Debloat, and First-Boot Customization

    The small open‑source utility ecosystem that helps people install or upgrade to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware has taken another evolutionary step: a popular requirements‑bypass project has become a fuller Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit, adding a smarter debloat/removal option and...
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    California Case Seeks Free Windows 10 Security Updates After EOL (Injunction)

    A California plaintiff’s emergency bid to stop Microsoft from switching off free Windows 10 security updates has turned a routine product lifecycle into a high‑stakes legal and policy contest — but the odds that a U.S. court will order Microsoft to permanently continue free support are long, and...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU Options, Enrollment Steps, and Risks

    Microsoft’s deadline is real: Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft has opened a time-limited path to buy one more year of security-only updates — but the route, the requirements, and the rollout are uneven enough that millions of users may be...
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    Windows 10 ESU rollout explained: enrollment options and planning

    Microsoft’s slow, staged rollout of the Windows 10 Enroll now (ESU) wizard means the extension lifeline Microsoft promised for legacy PCs is available — but not instantly visible to everyone, and it comes with conditions and caveats that every Windows 10 user should understand before relying on...
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    Windows 10 Support Ends Oct 14, 2025: ESU Options and Upgrade Paths

    Microsoft has begun surfacing a 60‑day warning to hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users: the operating system’s mainstream support ends on October 14, 2025, and anyone who wants continued security patches after that date must either upgrade to Windows 11 (if their PC is eligible), replace the...
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    KB5063709: Windows 10 August 2025 Update fixes ESU enrollment and Secure Boot anti-rollback

    Microsoft’s latest cumulative rollup for Windows 10, KB5063709, quietly arrived as part of the August Patch Tuesday cycle and does what Microsoft says it will: restore a broken ESU enrollment flow, harden firmware-level protections, and tidy up a handful of stability and input regressions as the...
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