windows 10 end of support

Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline on October 14, 2025 helped push a fresh wave of PC buyers toward replacement machines, and a TechPP guide published May 8, 2026 argues that some of those Windows veterans will land on Macs needing a starter kit of familiar utilities. The list is ostensibly...

Microsoft’s Secure Boot certificate rollover begins in June 2026, just eight months after Windows 10 left mainstream support on October 14, 2025, and Google is using that timing to pitch ChromeOS Flex as a free way to keep older Windows PCs useful. The sales line is simple: if Windows 11 will...

A Northampton bus station’s main passenger information display was photographed by a Register reader showing a Windows 10 desktop instead of live bus times, after months of clock drift and software failures at North Gate bus station in the town centre, which opened in 2014. The image is funny...

Valve’s April 2026 Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows roughly a quarter of Windows gamers still running Windows 10 months after Microsoft ended mainstream support on October 14, 2025, even as Windows 11 dominates Steam and Microsoft’s paid Extended Security Updates bridge runs through...

Six months after Microsoft ended free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, Valve’s April 2026 Steam Hardware and Software Survey still shows 25.53 percent of Steam users on Windows 10, while Windows 11 leads at 67.74 percent. That is not a rounding error; it is a migration failure hiding...

The latest evidence suggests that Zorin OS is no longer just a niche Windows replacement for tinkerers; it is becoming a credible migration path for mainstream users frustrated by Windows 11, Windows 10’s end-of-support shock, and Microsoft’s broader product direction. Zorin says its newest...

Steam’s latest hardware survey suggests Linux gaming has crossed from novelty into meaningful scale, but not into a “Big Switch” that would threaten Windows any time soon. In March 2026, Steam reported Linux at 5.33% and Windows at 92.33%, while Windows 10’s share inside the Windows camp...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 end-of-support deadline has become more than a software milestone; it is now a flashpoint in the debate over electronic waste, repair culture, and the right to keep older hardware useful. In Shropshire, volunteers linked to repair cafés and reuse campaigns are arguing that...

Something important happened after Windows 10’s end-of-support date: the “what now?” question stopped being theoretical and became a live consumer decision. Google is now actively pitching ChromeOS Flex as a free way to revive older Windows 10 PCs, and the company’s own sustainability messaging...

Google’s latest pitch to Windows users is less a software update than a strategic escape hatch. As Windows 10 support has already ended on October 14, 2025, millions of PCs that cannot move to Windows 11 are now living on borrowed time, and Google is seizing that moment with a free route into...

Google’s new push to turn aging Windows PCs into ChromeOS Flex machines is more than a clever recycling story. It is a direct challenge to the enormous installed base of Windows 10-era hardware that has either missed the Windows 11 cutoff or not yet migrated, and it arrives at a moment when...

Google’s ChromeOS Flex push is more than a clever recycling story: it is a direct challenge to the expensive, messy Windows 11 upgrade cycle now facing millions of Windows 10 holdouts. With Windows 10 support having ended on October 14, 2025, Microsoft is steering customers either toward Windows...

Something is shifting in the PC market, and the new fault line runs straight through Windows 10’s end of life. Google is now pushing ChromeOS Flex as a free “upgrade” path for older Windows and Mac hardware, and that pitch lands at a very awkward moment for Microsoft, which is still managing the...

Google’s latest push around ChromeOS Flex is more than a recycling story; it is a direct play for the huge pool of Windows 10-era PCs that cannot move to Windows 11. The timing matters because Windows 10 consumer support ended on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft’s consumer ESU program only buys...

More than 500 million Windows 10 PCs are now being pushed toward a hard choice: pay for replacement hardware, accept limited security coverage, or leave Microsoft’s ecosystem altogether. Google’s new ChromeOS Flex USB Kit, launched with Back Market, is designed to make that last option much...

Windows 10 support ended on October 14, 2025, which makes the upgrade question less about “if” and more about how to move with the least pain. Microsoft now states plainly that Windows 10 no longer receives free security updates, technical assistance, or feature updates, and recommends either...

More than two-thirds of Steam users are now running Windows 11, and the latest hardware survey reinforces a bigger story that has been building for years: the PC gaming market has largely completed its migration to Microsoft’s newer platform. Valve’s March 2026 survey shows Windows 11 at 66.85%...

Windows 11 has now firmly established itself as the default operating system for Steam’s gaming audience, and the latest Valve Hardware & Software Survey makes that dominance hard to ignore. In March 2026, Windows 11 64-bit accounted for 66.85% of surveyed Steam systems, while Windows 10 64-bit...

10ZiG’s launch of **RepurpConvert** lands at exactly the moment many IT departments have been dreading and preparing for: the post-**Windows 10** era. The Leicester-based vendor is pitching the tool as a way to convert older PCs, laptops and third-party thin clients into managed endpoints...

Plex Media Server’s decision to end support for 32-bit Windows is more than a routine housekeeping update. It is another sign that the software stack around home media servers is finally moving past the era of legacy PCs that could run modern services on aging operating systems indefinitely. The...