There have been rumors that Microsoft will postpone the retirement of Windows 10 from October 14, 2025 to some later, unknown date. Hundreds of millions of users still haven’t upgraded to Windows 11, and it’s been speculated that Microsoft simply doesn’t want to abandon the many who, for various reasons, can’t or don’t want to upgrade.
Not reveals however, the company that no general amnesty is out of the question. Instead, Microsoft will offer consumers the same extended support agreement that the company has previously offered business customers, for example when Windows 7 was shut down. On a support page, Microsoft writes that both individuals and companies who want to continue using Windows 10 after October 14, 2025 will be able to pay for extended support (ESU) for another three years.
The ESU program is only about security fixes and does not include any design changes, new features or other improvements.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released a beta version of the AI assistant Copilot for Windows 10, and figures from Statcounter showed as recently as October that Windows 10 still has just over 70 percent of the market, compared to 23 percent for Windows 11. Hundreds of millions of computers with Windows 10 does not meet the system requirements for Windows 11 and will thus never be upgradeable. It is uncertain what Microsoft intends users to do with these.
2023-12-06 04:29:37
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