Windows 10 officially in maintenance mode until 2025

Microsoft confirms what was already apparent to all, here’s what that might mean for Windows 11

Kostas Farkonas
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4 min readMay 5

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Windows 10 is actively used by more than 1.1 billion PCs worldwide, yet Microsoft will only be offering security updates for it from now on. It somehow makes and doesn’t make sense at the same time. (Image: Microsoft)

In the end, it all happened through a brief blog post primarily addressed to IT pros — not consumers — and a tweet: Windows 10, the operating system once promoted as “the last version of Windows” by Microsoft, is now…

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Kostas Farkonas
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