windows 10 end of life

As of this November’s Steam Hardware & Software Survey, Windows 10 may have officially lost Microsoft’s support on October 14, 2025, but it is emphatically not gone: roughly 29.06% of Steam users were still running Windows 10 in November, while Windows 11 jumped to about 65.59% — a meaningful...

Microsoft and PC vendors are racing to reconcile two stubbornly different truths: Microsoft says Windows 11 is a mainstream platform with nearly a billion people “relying on” it, while Dell’s leadership says roughly 500 million PCs that are capable of upgrading to Windows 11 haven’t — and...

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...

Zorin OS 18 has raced into the headlines with a milestone few Linux distributions ever manage: roughly one million downloads in a little over a month after launch — and, crucially, Zorin Group reports that nearly 78% of those downloads originated from Windows machines, a data point that frames...

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 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...

VysionTech this week rolled out a bold, no-cost offer that promises “enterprise-grade” managed IT services to every business willing to try them — free through December 31, 2025 — a move designed to accelerate security posture upgrades, simplify Windows 10 end‑of‑life planning, and coax small...

Microsoft’s support feed accidentally used a Windows 10 UI to illustrate a modern Windows 11 feature, a small public slip that nonetheless reveals larger gaps in content governance, automation, and messaging at a pivotal moment for Microsoft’s desktop strategy. The social post — an X (Twitter)...

Upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 while keeping a local account is straightforward — and entirely possible — but it deserves a careful, step‑by‑step approach so you don’t lose data, tied cloud artifacts, or important recovery keys. Background Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows...

Microsoft’s official support channel accidentally leaned on Windows 10’s visual identity to demo a Windows 11 feature, and the slip-up exposes more than nostalgia — it reveals gaps in social posting workflows, bot automation, and messaging discipline at a time when Windows 10 has officially...

I didn’t upgrade to Windows 11 because I fell for the marketing or because I craved the rounded corners — I did it because my new OLED monitor demanded it, and because a fresh install was the clean break my aging Windows 10 setup desperately needed. The XDA contributor’s tale of finally...

A blunt consumer advisory telling people to exercise “extreme caution” with certain versions of Windows has crystallised a problem millions of households and small businesses now face: systems that have reached the end of vendor support are not just inconvenient—they are a measurable security...

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...

Microsoft has quietly moved the goalposts: Windows 10 has reached end of support, and a heavily discounted bundle that pairs a Windows 11 Pro upgrade with a perpetual Microsoft Office Professional 2021 license is being promoted as an urgent, one‑time fix for users still on the old platform...

Windows 10 has officially reached the end of its mainstream servicing—but for many users the practical effect will be quietly incremental rather than cataclysmic, leaving a vast installed base to weigh upgrade options, temporary lifelines, and rising security risk as Microsoft shifts attention...

I moved two non‑technical family members off an out‑of‑support Windows 10 install and onto Zorin OS, and the result has been quietly transformative: they lost almost none of the muscle memory from Windows, their day‑to‑day tasks run faster on old hardware, and I can manage updates and backups...

Microsoft accidentally triggered a panic this autumn when a routine October update caused some Windows 10 PCs — including machines that should still be receiving security-only updates — to display a blunt “Your version of Windows has reached the end of support” banner inside Settings → Windows...

The end of support for Windows 10 has produced one of the clearest real‑world inflection points the desktop market has seen in years: faced with an October 14, 2025 cutoff for free security updates and a Windows 11 upgrade path gated by TPM, Secure Boot and newer CPUs, a measurable wave of users...

A recently discovered unofficial mirror hosting downloads of FlyOOBE — the community tool that evolved from the Flyby11 Windows 11 requirements bypass — has triggered an urgent developer warning and fresh debate about the risks of using third‑party installers to force unsupported machines onto...

SocialBox.Biz is pitching a practical, measurable way to turn the Windows 10 phase‑out from a mass‑disposal headache into a carbon‑saving, community‑benefit opportunity by collecting corporate surplus, securely wiping drives, and reimaging old machines with open‑source or lightweight cloud‑first...