windows 10 end of support

Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region suffered a high‑impact outage on October 20, 2025 that knocked hundreds of consumer and enterprise services offline, exposed a brittle set of control‑plane dependencies (notably DNS resolution for Amazon DynamoDB), and renewed urgent debate about how the...

Microsoft’s deadline has turned a familiar upgrade debate into a hard choice for IT teams, small businesses and power users: with Windows 10’s free mainstream support ending on October 14, 2025, organizations face a three-way decision—move to Windows 11, buy time with Extended Security Updates...

Security researchers and government cybersecurity teams are publicly warning that millions of Windows 10 machines face an elevated risk of malicious attacks now that Microsoft’s vendor-supplied patching lifecycle has moved past the platform’s mainstream support window — a transition that turns...

Cambridge charity Rebooted is urging companies to turn obsolete Windows 10 laptops into engines of social mobility — securely wiping corporate kit, installing Google’s ChromeOS Flex, and donating the refurbished devices to young people who would otherwise be offline — a timely appeal that...

Microsoft has officially ended mainstream support for Windows 10, and millions of PCs now face a choice: upgrade to Windows 11, enroll in the time‑boxed consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or run increasingly vulnerable systems without vendor OS patches. Background / Overview...

Samsung’s one‑month nationwide laptop checkup in South Korea is a direct, tactical response to the hard end‑of‑support date for Windows 10 — a customer‑facing safety net that blends free technical triage with clear commercial incentives for Galaxy Book replacements and trade‑ins. Background /...

When Microsoft closed the Windows 10 support window on October 14, 2025, it did more than flip a lifecycle switch — it forced an operational reckoning for organisations that still run significant numbers of older PCs, industrial systems, and bespoke endpoints that cannot meet Windows 11’s...

Windows 10’s end-of-support did more than close a chapter — it created a deadline that turned longstanding indecision into urgent action, and Zorin OS 18 surfed that tidal shift with a carefully timed release, a migration‑focused feature set, and a public metrics splash that caught mainstream...

StatCounter’s September snapshot of desktop Windows usage produced a headline-grabbing wrinkle: Windows 11 sits near half of pageview-weighted Windows traffic while Windows 10 declines — and Windows 7, an operating system Microsoft stopped supporting years ago, shows a surprising single‑month...

Microsoft’s twin shocks to the PC market — a wave of new import tariffs that are already nudging prices and inventory decisions, and the formal end of mainstream support for Windows 10 — have converged into a single, practical problem for millions of users: how to upgrade securely, affordably...

Microsoft has drawn a hard line under a decade of Windows 10 maintenance: as of October 14, 2025, Microsoft’s routine, vendor‑supplied support for mainstream Windows 10 editions has ended, and users are being urged to upgrade, enroll in short‑term Extended Security Updates (ESU), or accept an...

Microsoft’s decision to stop supporting Windows 10 marks the end of a ten‑year chapter for the OS and forces a practical choice on millions of users: upgrade, buy short‑term protection, migrate to another platform, or accept growing security and compliance risk. Microsoft’s lifecycle...

Microsoft has ended mainstream support for Windows 10, a decision that shifts millions of PCs from a vendor‑maintained security posture into a riskier, user‑responsibility state and forces a choice: upgrade to Windows 11, buy time with Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates, or accept growing...

Microsoft's decision to stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has coincided with an oddly specific hardware trend: a sudden rush for optical drives in Tokyo’s Akihabara that has left internal Blu‑ray burners scarce and DVD drives moving quickly off store shelves. Background / Overview...

The clock is set: Microsoft’s formal end-of-support for Windows 10 has pushed a sprawling, complex policy question into the public arena — and environmental campaigners, IT managers and refurbishers warn the fallout could be a sharp spike in e‑waste unless industry and governments act fast...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 cumulative—KB5066791—is not just another Patch Tuesday rollout: it is the last broadly distributed Windows 10 cumulative update Microsoft will publish for consumer devices, and it closes the decade‑long mainstream support lifecycle for a platform still running on...

If you’re not ready to move to Windows 11, Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a one‑year lifeline: the consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. It preserves delivery of critical and important security patches through 13 October 2026, while Microsoft stops normal, free...

Microsoft’s mid‑October moves changed the Windows landscape in one week: Windows 10’s free mainstream support ended, Microsoft opened a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge while simultaneously accelerating Windows 11’s Copilot‑first vision — including the public awaken‑word...

Microsoft’s mid‑October push makes the moment unmistakable: as free mainstream security support for Windows 10 ends, Microsoft is simultaneously widening Windows 11’s lead with a major set of AI features built around Copilot — voice activation (“Hey, Copilot”), expanded on‑screen intelligence...

Microsoft has officially stopped issuing routine security updates and free technical support for Windows 10 — a hard lifecycle cutoff that took effect on October 14, 2025 and forces every remaining Windows 10 PC into one of three practical paths: upgrade, enroll in a time‑boxed Extended Security...