windows 10 end of support

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...

A consumer‑facing warning telling people to take “extreme caution” with certain Windows installations has quickly become the dominant narrative in local and national coverage — and for good reason: Microsoft has ended mainstream support for Windows 10, multiple actively‑exploited legacy flaws...

Which? has told consumers to take “extreme caution” with older Windows machines — and, in blunt terms, to disconnect unsupported Windows PCs from the Internet if they cannot be upgraded or patched. The consumer watchdog’s advice is stark because the technical reality is simple: once Microsoft...

On October 14, 2025 Microsoft stopped issuing regular security and feature updates for Windows 10 — and that deadline has forced many users with otherwise serviceable PCs to choose between buying new hardware, enrolling in a one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, or using community...

Ten years is a long innings for an operating system — and with Windows 10 reaching end of support on 14 October 2025, the decision to replace an outgoing Windows 10 PC is now less about features and more about security, compatibility and future-proofing. The argument for buying a new laptop from...