extended security updates

Windows 10 has reached its planned end of mainstream support: Microsoft stopped routine security updates, feature releases, and standard technical assistance on October 14, 2025, and users now face a clear choice between upgrading, buying time with a paid or free Extended Security Updates (ESU)...

Dell’s blunt investor math — roughly a billion PCs still running Windows 10, half of them effectively too old to run Windows 11 — has forced the industry to rethink what a modern Windows transition actually looks like and what it will cost in time, money, security and environmental impact...

Dell’s blunt admission on its latest earnings call — that the Windows 11 migration “has not completed” — is a concise way of saying the modern Windows upgrade cycle is slower, messier, and more commercially complicated than many expected. The company’s COO, Jeffrey Clarke, told investors that...

Microsoft’s Windows migration story quietly fractured into two markets this autumn: roughly 500 million PCs that can run Windows 11 but haven’t upgraded, and another ~500 million machines that are too old to meet Microsoft’s hardware gate, leaving a staggeringly large installed base still on...

Windows users are not rushing to the Windows 11 upgrade party, and the headline numbers driving that story come straight from an investor briefing that reframes the migration as a patchwork of technical limits, economic choices, and plain user inertia. Dell’s COO told investors that roughly 500...

Microsoft’s official end-of-support for Windows 10 has made an already awkward transition into a full-blown market story: tens — if not hundreds — of millions of PCs remain un-upgraded, and Dell’s COO has put a stark number on the problem. On a recent earnings call Dell executive Jeffrey Clarke...

Windows 10 remains entrenched on roughly one billion PCs worldwide even after Microsoft formally ended mainstream support for the operating system, a reality underscored by Dell’s recent earnings commentary and corroborated by public telemetry and Microsoft’s own transition messaging. Background...

Windows 10 reached its end-of-support milestone in mid‑October, yet a huge portion of the Windows install base remains on the decade‑old operating system — a stubborn reality underscored by Dell executives who say roughly 1 billion PCs are still running Windows 10, split between machines that...

Microsoft’s latest update warnings have morphed from a routine nudge into a full‑blown security alarm: with Windows 10 now officially retired and millions — potentially up to a billion — devices still running it or otherwise exposed, consumers and IT teams face a narrow, high‑stakes window to...

Microsoft’s decade‑long servicing promise for Windows 10 ended with a clear calendar cut‑off: on October 14, 2025 Microsoft stopped delivering routine feature updates, quality rollups, and free monthly security patches to mainstream Windows 10 editions — a policy move that turns a familiar...

Microsoft’s decision to stop free security updates and mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has become an operational emergency for organizations that built long-lived test-and-measurement systems on that platform — and the options available (upgrade to Windows 11, buy a...

Microsoft’s latest deadline is less a single date than a narrowing window: Windows 10’s free updates ended on October 14, 2025, but the company’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program keeps critical patches flowing only through October 13, 2026 — and an estimated half‑billion...

Microsoft’s official lifecycle clock for Windows 10 has run out: on October 14, 2025 Microsoft stopped issuing free security and quality updates for mainstream Windows 10 installations, and the upgrade, migration and protection decisions that once felt optional for many households and businesses...

Microsoft has formally ended free support for Windows 10, and every user still running that OS needs to take immediate action to avoid growing security exposure: either enroll in the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program or upgrade to a supported operating system—and for...

Windows users across the UK and beyond have been told to "make a change or risk exposure" after consumer groups and security agencies issued blunt warnings about the growing danger of running unsupported or unpatched Windows installations — advice that, in some cases, explicitly recommends...

Microsoft’s latest student push hands eligible college and university students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot — a one‑user Microsoft 365 Personal seat (desktop and web Office apps), Copilot AI integrated across supported apps, and 1 TB of OneDrive storage — but the details...

Microsoft has begun rolling out the January 12, 2016 cumulative update that raises Windows 10 (Version 1511) for non‑Insider PCs to build 10586.63 (delivered as KB3124263), a security‑focused release that patches multiple kernel, browser and remote‑code‑execution vectors and aligns public PC...

Prisma AIRS 2.0 signals a pivotal shift in how enterprises must think about agentic AI: not as a feature to bolt on, but as a distinct class of identity, data flow and runtime behavior that demands lifecycle security from design through live execution. Background / Overview Autonomous AI agents...

The consumer watchdog Which? has issued a blunt warning to anyone still running older versions of Windows: treat unsupported systems with extreme caution, and if you cannot immediately upgrade or enroll in an official extended‑security program, disconnect them from the internet until you can...

Microsoft has quietly shipped an out‑of‑band (OOB) update — KB5071959 — that repairs a broken enrollment wizard preventing some Windows 10 consumer PCs from joining the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, restoring the ability for eligible devices to receive post‑end‑of‑support security...