windows 10 end of support

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...

Optical drives are quietly back on the shopping lists of Japanese PC buyers, and the cause is as practical as it is cultural: the end of Windows 10 support forced a refresh cycle that exposed a simple compatibility gap—new Windows 11 machines often omit internal optical bays—prompting a wave of...

Windows 11 has finally taken the lead in the global Windows desktop market, crossing the majority threshold while Windows 10’s installed base continues a marked decline as Microsoft’s end‑of‑support deadline reshapes upgrade decisions worldwide. Background The competition between Windows 10 and...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: support for Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025 — and that change has immediate security, compatibility and cost implications for millions of PCs worldwide. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived in July 2015 and became the dominant desktop operating system...

I switched my spare PC from Windows 10 to Bazzite and, between the stripped-down gaming flow and surprisingly reliable hardware support, I haven’t felt the itch to go back to Windows for that machine. The experience described in the original Pocket‑lint writeup—fast installation, a console‑style...

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) quietly disclosed that it has spent roughly £312 million modernising its IT estate — a programme that removed 31,500 Windows 7 laptops, patched tens of thousands of vulnerabilities and migrated dozens of legacy applications — even...

Microsoft’s decision to end free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 created an immediate policy and practical crisis — and community repair groups stepped into the breach, turning International Repair Day into a national and global campaign to keep functioning machines in use rather than...

The UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) quietly disclosed that it has spent approximately £312 million modernising its IT estate — a programme that included removing 31,500 Windows 7 laptops and upgrading them to Windows 10, patching tens of thousands of vulnerabilities...

Microsoft has closed the book on a decade of Windows 10 support while simultaneously steering the PC platform into an AI-first strategy built around Windows 11, Copilot, and a new Copilot+ hardware class — and Microsoft has made clear there’s no Windows 12 release date on the horizon as it...

Windows 10’s end-of-support has created a scramble — and attackers are leaning into that urgency with counterfeit download pages that impersonate popular upgrade utilities. The developer of FlyOOBE (formerly Flyby11), a widely used community tool that automates bypasses and Out‑Of‑Box Experience...

Microsoft’s consumer support for Windows 10 officially ended on October 14, 2025, and that change has immediate, practical consequences for billions of devices worldwide — but it’s not the abrupt “turn your PC off forever” scenario some headlines suggested. What changes, what stays, and what you...

As October wound down, the month’s cybersecurity headlines sketched a clear, uncomfortable pattern: legacy platforms reaching their limits, social-media-driven malware that preys on casual trust, and nation-state actors — backed by AI-assisted tooling — raising the stakes of espionage and...

Germany’s federal digital authority has admitted it cannot say how many federal workstations still run Windows 10, who will pay for the Windows 11 migration, or when that migration will finish — a stark symptom of deeper breakdowns in inventory, license management, and IT governance across the...

Apple’s sudden windfall of Mac buyers is the clearest market signal yet that Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support for Windows 10 turned a long‑running upgrade cycle into a calendar‑driven buying event—and that some users chose to leave the Windows ecosystem rather than wrestle with...

Microsoft’s blunt warning landed with blunt clarity: running unsupported Windows 10 (or any unsupported OS) isn’t merely an inconvenience — it’s an open invitation to attackers. That message, amplified in consumer reporting from Kurt “the CyberGuy” and repeated across Microsoft’s security...

Zorin OS 18 landed on the very day Microsoft ended free support for Windows 10, and within a little over 48 hours the project celebrated more than 100,000 downloads — a launch spike that has turned a thoughtful desktop release into one of the most-discussed migration stories of the year...

Microsoft's timing could not have been worse: as Windows 10 reached its end-of-support horizon, the company's most familiar consumer upgrade utility — the Media Creation Tool — began failing for many Windows 10 users, closing silently without error and leaving upgrade and recovery workflows...