Windows 10 support will end in five months, except for companies wishing to pay three years of updates. The American company has also adjusted another policy concerning its software ecosystem. Another flower granted to latecomers who have not yet migrated on Windows 11.
The clock turns. There is now officially only five months of existence at Windows 10. On October 14, 2025, Microsoft plans to no longer provide any update for its operating system, which will then have more than ten years of age. The bone will still be functional, but will no longer have the right to any security patch.
This policy is currently maintained by the Redmond firm, even if the market share of Windows 10 is still very high: according to Statcounterit was almost 53 % worldwide in April 2025 among all generations of Windows in circulation. Admittedly, it decreases, but at a rate that is too slow with regard to the deadline.
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Also, some adjustments are already planned. Microsoft has planned for example to invoice organizations that could not migrate on Windows 11 the security updates arriving after October 14, 2025. Count 30 dollars the first year of support. Professional customers will be able to extend this support by an additional two years.
Like the point Neowinanother part of the group’s software ecosystem is being adjusted: that of the applications of Microsoft 365, which is the group’s office suite. So, in a step point published at the end of Aprilit was decided to extend the support of World, Excel, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and a company of three more years after October 14, 2025.
This period of grace until 2028 for the OS and certain applications, although subject to certain conditions, aims not to put in difficulty companies which could end up with a badly protected bone. But Microsoft’s message remains the same: it is necessary to take care now of the migration of systems to Windows 11.
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