windows 10 end of life

Microsoft's latest Insider preview effectively closes the easiest doors that let people set up Windows 11 with a purely local account during the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), and for privacy‑minded users the timing is provocative enough to push a real conversation about whether now is the right...

The countdown to a watershed moment in consumer Windows support ends tomorrow: Microsoft will stop delivering regular security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, forcing millions of users to choose between upgrading, paying for a short-term extension, or continuing with an increasingly...

Windows 10 reaches its official end-of-support moment on October 14, 2025, and if your PC can’t be upgraded through Windows Update you face five practical paths — each with clear trade-offs in cost, security, and complexity — that must be chosen and executed now rather than later. Background /...

Microsoft has formally ended mainstream support for Windows 10: as of Tuesday, October 14, 2025, routine security patches and quality fixes for consumer editions cease and Microsoft is directing most users toward Windows 11 or a paid or conditional Extended Security Updates (ESU) pathway for a...

Microsoft has set a firm calendar: mainstream support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025 — a change that stops free security patches, feature updates, and standard technical support for the vast majority of Windows 10 editions and forces U.S. users to pick between upgrading, paying for...

October 14, 2025 is the hard deadline: Microsoft will stop shipping free security updates, feature updates and routine technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions, forcing a global reassessment of upgrade paths, security posture and—for some regions—a strategic rethink about whether...

Microsoft has formally closed the books on Windows 10: as of October 14, 2025, mainstream vendor servicing for Windows 10 (including the last broadly distributed consumer release, Windows 10, version 22H2) has ended, meaning Microsoft will no longer push routine OS security patches, cumulative...

Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a milestone that shifts responsibility for security, updates, and technical assistance away from Microsoft and onto millions of users and IT teams worldwide. For many households and organizations this is not a sudden...

Microsoft has formally turned off the tap for Windows 10: as of October 14, 2025, consumer editions of Windows 10 will no longer receive standard security updates, feature updates, or routine technical support from Microsoft—though a limited, time‑bound safety net is available through the...

Microsoft has set a hard stop: routine, free support and security updates for mainstream Windows 10 end on October 14, 2025 — a calendar-driven turning point that forces a choice for every remaining Windows 10 device: upgrade, enroll in the limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, migrate...

Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, quality patches, and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a hard cutoff that forces millions of users and organizations to choose between upgrading, paying for a short-term safety net, or running unsupported...

After a decade of steady updates, security patches, and slow-but-sure adoption, Windows 10 has officially reached end of support — Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates, quality fixes, and standard technical assistance for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. Your PC will keep...

Microsoft has stopped providing routine security updates, feature fixes and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions as of October 14, 2025 — and that change has immediate, practical consequences for millions of PCs worldwide. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in...

Microsoft has ended official support for Windows 10 today, October 14, 2025, a firm lifecycle cutoff that stops routine OS security updates and standard technical assistance for mainstream Windows 10 editions unless a device is enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. Background...

Microsoft’s scheduled halt to Windows 10 security updates on October 14, 2025 changes the risk calculus for millions of PCs — it does not instantly brick machines, but it removes the vendor safety net that patches newly discovered vulnerabilities and defends connected systems from evolving...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and that calendar cut‑off changes what “secure” and “supported” means for every PC still running the operating system. After that date Microsoft will stop shipping routine OS security updates, non‑security...

Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates, feature and quality patches, and standard technical support for most consumer and commercial editions of Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a hard lifecycle cutoff that forces a choice for every remaining Windows 10 device: upgrade to Windows...

Microsoft’s quiet update to the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) has one unmistakable effect: for a subset of Windows 10 users trying to build Windows 11 installation media right as Windows 10 hits end‑of‑support, the tool now simply refuses to run — closing immediately with no error — and...

Microsoft’s migration toolkit stumbled at the worst possible moment: an update to the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) published in late September — identified in community and vendor reporting as version 26100.6584 — can refuse to run on machines still running Windows 10, closing...

Microsoft’s official Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) is failing to run on many Windows 10 systems — a regression Microsoft has acknowledged — and the timing couldn’t be worse: the problem arrived in late September in MCT build 26100.6584, immediately before Windows 10’s public...