Microsoft has updated its Windows 10 consumer Extended Security Updates language to say enrolled PCs can keep receiving security-only updates until October 12, 2027, effectively giving holdout users a second post-retirement year after the operating system’s formal end of support on October 14...
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Microsoft’s hard stop on Windows 10 support has left an enormous tail of still‑working machines exposed, prompted consumer and environmental outcry, and forced a practical reckoning about what “end of support” actually means for hundreds of millions of users around the world.
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