windows 10 end of support

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...

Ubuntu’s 21st birthday this October landed against an unusual backdrop: Microsoft’s formal end of free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and a renewed campus-level conversation about whether students should consider Linux as a practical alternative. The moment matters because it...

Microsoft’s decision to draw a line under routine Windows 10 updates on October 14, 2025 is now a practical security inflection point for millions of endpoints worldwide — a scheduled vendor lifecycle event that transforms a familiar, working OS into an increasingly risky liability unless...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 cutoff for Windows 10 support has forced a stark choice for millions of users: upgrade to Windows 11 where hardware allows, enroll in a time‑limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or remain on an increasingly risky, unsupported OS—and a wave of community...

The end of free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has reshaped the threat model for millions of endpoints worldwide—what was once a predictable patch cycle is now a countdown, and for organizations that cannot immediately migrate to Windows 11 the practical choice is no longer...

Microsoft’s decision to pull the security plug on Windows 10 has done more than force millions to choose how — and when — to upgrade; it has also reshuffled the PC market, creating a calendar‑driven replacement wave that is materially boosting shipments across the industry and, surprisingly to...

Microsoft’s end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 has done more than sharpen upgrade timetables — it has re‑arranged buyer behavior, accelerating a PC refresh that is handing Apple a rare win in the notebook market as a meaningful portion of Windows 10 users choose MacBook hardware over the...

Microsoft’s decision to end Windows 10 support has done exactly what Microsoft planners expected — it created a hard, calendar-driven refresh window — but the real surprise of Q3 2025 is who cashed the checks: Apple’s MacBooks posted double‑digit growth while Lenovo surged to the top of the PC...

If your PC can’t run Windows 11, you don’t have to toss it — you can safely keep using that hardware by switching to a non‑Windows operating system, and in many cases the move is free, fast, and reversible. Microsoft ended mainstream updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and even though...

Microsoft's hard stop for Windows 10 has landed as a market‑shaking deadline, and the ripple effects — emergency patches, a major PC replacement wave, a pointed Microsoft push for new "Copilot" AI PCs, and an unexpected lift for Mac shipments — are changing the upgrade calculus for millions of...

Microsoft formally ended mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, but the OS continues to be usable in 2026 — with important caveats: Microsoft offered a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge that provides security‑only patches through October 13, 2026, while...

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...

Windows 10 has reached its formal end of mainstream support and, as of October 14, 2025, Microsoft stopped issuing routine security and feature updates for most consumer and business editions — a change that turns the platform from “supported” to an increasingly attractive target for...

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 /...

Microsoft’s decision to stop routine security updates for Windows 10 has immediately become a lucrative hook for scammers, and consumers need clear, practical defences now — not tomorrow — to avoid losing data, money, or access to their machines. The headline fact is simple: Windows 10 reached...

Microsoft has cut the ribbon on a formal end to Windows 10 support — but for most home users Microsoft has also opened a short, tightly scoped lifeline: the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that can keep eligible Windows 10 PCs receiving security-only patches through October 13...