windows 10 end of support

Microsoft’s formal end of free support for Windows 10 has not just closed a chapter — it has triggered a measurable migration moment that many mainstream users are answering by testing or switching to Linux distributions, with Zorin OS 18 the most visible early beneficiary of that shift...

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...

Japan’s unexpectedly old‑school reaction to the end of Windows 10 has sent a shockwave through Akihabara: internal Blu‑ray burners are disappearing from shop shelves as consumers scramble to keep physical copies of Windows 11 and preserve huge personal collections of discs. Background / Overview...

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 draw a line under Windows 10 has done more than close a chapter in PC history — it has also sparked an unexpected hardware revival in Japan, where disc drives once thought extinct are suddenly in demand across Akihabara and specialty retailers nationwide. As millions...

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...

Microsoft’s decade-long experiment with “Windows as a service” reached a clear inflection point on October 14, 2025, when Microsoft officially ended mainstream support for Windows 10 — the operating system that launched on July 29, 2015, and at one time was billed internally as “the last version...

Windows 10’s retirement on October 14, 2025 has created a hard deadline that many users ignored until the last minute — and Google has moved quickly to turn that anxiety into a marketing and product opportunity: convert aging, unsupported Windows PCs into Chromebooks with ChromeOS Flex or push...

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...

Five months on Linux convinced a longtime Windows user that the desktop operating system they thought they needed was more of a habit than a hard requirement — the experiment that began with Linux Mint and settled into Fedora KDE Plasma revealed that most everyday workflows, many popular apps...

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...

Windows 10’s formal retirement this month is a milestone with more nuance than panic: the OS stopped receiving routine, free security and feature updates on October 14, 2025, but Microsoft built a deliberate, limited bridge and nudges to move users to Windows 11 — and that combination of...