windows 10 end of support

Russia’s recent surge in Windows 11 usage is a clear inflection point in the post‑Windows‑10 migration story: StatCounter reports that Windows 11 accounted for 36.13% of Windows versions seen in Russia in November 2025, up from roughly 19–21% in mid‑2025 — a jump that coincides with the end of...

Microsoft's migration story is getting more complicated: OEM telemetry from Dell and multiple industry trackers show Windows 11 adoption lagging historical OS transitions, while Microsoft’s platform continues to evolve with targeted updates — from a new App Updates page in Settings to PowerToys...

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...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline for Windows 10 turned a lot of “it still works” family PCs into urgent upgrade projects, but for most machines built in the last decade you have realistic, safe options to move from Windows 10 to Windows 11 without buying new hardware—provided...

Microsoft's lifecycle calendar just collided with the real world: despite official end of support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, industry figures released during a recent Dell earnings call suggest roughly 1 billion active Windows PCs remain tethered to the decade-old OS — and that number...

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...

In the quiet churn between OEM order boards and corporate asset inventories, a tectonic shift has accelerated: hardware vendors are increasingly shipping new PCs with Windows 11 by default, and in some channels the option to buy machines pre‑loaded with Windows 10 has all but disappeared—an...

Windows users and enterprise IT teams are confronting a stubborn reality: a large portion of the global PC installed base is not moving to Windows 11 — even as Microsoft phases out free support for Windows 10 and vendors pitch fresh hardware, AI PCs, and Copilot-enabled experiences. Background...

Zorin OS 18 has quietly become the poster child of post‑Windows‑10 migration chatter: the Zorin Group announced that the new release topped one million downloads in just over a month, and the project says more than 78% of those downloads were initiated from Windows machines — a striking early...

Microsoft has officially stopped mainstream support for Windows 10, halting routine feature releases, quality updates, and free monthly security patches on October 14, 2025 — a ten‑year lifecycle milestone that shifts the security and upgrade conversation from “if” to “how” for millions of PCs...

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...

The end of official support for Windows 10 has produced an unexpected ripple effect: a small Irish Linux distribution, Zorin OS, says its new release — Zorin OS 18 — has been downloaded more than one million times in just over a month, and roughly 78% of those downloads originated from Windows...

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...

Pennsylvanians hunting for holiday bargains can now buy refurbished phones, laptops and other electronics with greater confidence thanks to the PennPIRG Education Fund’s newest Fixed for the Holidays shopping guide — a practical playbook that pairs deal-hunting tactics with safety checks...

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...

The holiday shopping season has an unmistakable tech beat this year: a nationwide Satellite Media Tour (SMT) led by Marc Saltzman in partnership with News Media Group, Inc. and ASUS has turned a real platform milestone — Microsoft’s end of mainstream support for Windows 10 — into a fast...

Microsoft’s deadline left millions of machines in limbo, and some users answered by quietly rewriting the migration playbook: registry tweaks, patched installer flows and custom ISOs can — in many cases — move “ineligible” Windows 10 PCs onto Windows 11, but they do so by deliberately...

Microsoft’s public acknowledgment of an unfolding user revolt over Windows’ AI-first direction marks an unusual and consequential moment for the desktop: after Windows 10’s formal end-of-support on October 14, 2025, an accelerating and highly visible migration to Linux and other alternatives has...

Amazon Renewed listings for budget refurbished PCs quietly continued to promise Windows 11 or otherwise fail to disclose that the machines could never be upgraded after Microsoft ended Windows 10 support — and shoppers who bought those “lemon” systems face a fast-closing returns window because...

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...