windows 10 end of life

Microsoft’s deadline for mainstream Windows 10 support has passed, but a controlled, cost‑effective migration to Windows 11 is still fully achievable with careful planning, the right tooling, and a phased rollout. Treat October 14, 2025 as the operational wake‑up call it was meant to be —...

The short version: the Wi‑Fi driver that works on a brand‑new laptop running Windows 11 can — and often does — fail on Windows 10 for a mix of reasons: Microsoft has ended mainstream Windows 10 updates, OEMs are shipping Windows 11‑targeted drivers and tooling, driver stacks and the Windows...

Microsoft has officially stopped providing security updates, feature updates, and standard technical support for Windows 10 as of October 14, 2025 — and for most users the practical next step is to move to Windows 11 (if your PC is eligible) or enroll in the temporary Extended Security Updates...

Microsoft’s hard deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived at the same time Microsoft is pushing Windows 11 into a deeply AI‑centric orbit — an orchestrated inflection point that transforms an operating‑system upgrade into a wider push for voice, vision, and agentic features anchored by...

Microsoft’s latest repositioning — accepting higher near‑term capital spending to secure AI capacity while insisting margins will remain intact — is a deliberate trade that reshapes the company’s risk/reward profile for enterprises, investors, and Windows‑centric IT teams alike. The Seeking...

Microsoft has used the hard deadline for Windows 10 support to accelerate a strategic pivot: as free mainstream servicing for Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025, Microsoft simultaneously pushed a wide set of AI-first features into Windows 11 — centered on the Copilot family (voice, vision and...

Microsoft’s latest update to Windows 11 marks a deliberate pivot: the operating system is being reframed as an AI-first platform, with Copilot graduating from a sidebar chatbot to a multimodal, permissioned assistant that can listen, see, and — under controlled conditions — act on your behalf...

BornCity — known in English as Born's IT and Windows Blog — has quietly become one of the most reliable German-language trackers of Microsoft servicing drama in 2025, producing timely, technically detailed coverage of everything from the Windows 10 end-of-support transition to errant cumulative...

Microsoft’s final Windows 10 security update dropped as scheduled, and at the same moment the company is aggressively recasting Windows 11 as a generative-AI platform—folding voice, vision, agents and new Copilot features directly into the desktop to accelerate upgrades and reshape how people...

Microsoft’s free, routine security updates for Windows 10 officially stopped on October 14, 2025, a vendor lifecycle cutoff that security experts and consumer advocates say materially raises cyber risk for millions of people and organizations that remain on the platform. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...

Microsoft issued one last cumulative security update for Windows 10 as the operating system reached its formal end of mainstream support on October 14, 2025 — a time‑boxed final patch (KB5066791) that closes the decade‑long servicing cycle while delivering urgent security fixes and a small set...

A sudden uptick in searches for “when does Windows 12 come out” — alongside a parallel spike for the phrase “hate Windows 11” — has crystallized a brewing moment of user frustration and market anxiety as Windows 10 reaches its scheduled end of support and Microsoft shifts its product cadence...

Microsoft has pushed one final cumulative security update for Windows 10 as the operating system reaches its official end of support, but that last patch is a short‑term fix — the long‑term answer for most users is an upgrade to a supported platform. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in...

Microsoft’s decision to draw the curtain on Windows 10 has finally arrived: the decade‑old operating system has moved from mainstream support into retirement, forcing households, small businesses and enterprise IT teams into a narrow planning window where choices are security‑driven and...

Microsoft's decision to keep Microsoft Defender Antivirus receiving definition and detection updates on Windows 10 for years after the operating system's official end-of-support does reduce one vector of risk — but it is emphatically not a replacement for ongoing OS security patches, feature...

Microsoft’s free support for Windows 10 has ended — and the ramifications are immediate, wide-ranging, and complex: hundreds of millions of machines will no longer receive routine security patches unless their owners take explicit action, many older PCs cannot upgrade to Windows 11 because of...

Microsoft’s decade-long stewardship of Windows 10 reached its scheduled endpoint on October 14, 2025, a hard lifecycle cutoff that removes Microsoft’s routine security patches, feature updates, and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions — creating a new and measurable...

It’s official: Microsoft has ended mainstream support for Windows 10, and while your PC won’t die at the stroke of midnight, the safety net that kept the OS patched and maintained for a decade is gone — unless you take immediate action. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in July 2015 and...

Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, delivering the final vendor-supplied security update and formally moving the OS to End of Life — a technical milestone that quickly became a political and cultural flashpoint as millions of users, charities and activists debated what...