Update while you can — here's what you need to know.
Microsoft has a problem on its hands. Windows 10 will crash into end of life in October, with likely hundreds of millions of users yet to upgrade to Windows 11. And while for most of 2024 there was a steady albeit small shift from the older to the newer OS, towards the end of the yearsome lost ground. February’s stats will be critical, to confirm the shift to Windows 11 is still gaining momentum.a PC that meets the technical and security hurdles for the upgrade.
There remains a risk that once Windows 10 becomes a retired OS, a free upgrade deadline will be revisited. That blogpost didn’t come from nowhere. But now post that has been deleted, all we know formally is that "the free upgrade offer does not have a specific end date for eligible systems; however, Microsoft reserves the right to eventually end support for the free offer." I have asked if there’s any change to this.
Upgrading a non-compatible PC with one of the workarounds still available will likely remove invalidate any remaining hardware as well as software support. Your options are to pay Microsoft $30 for a 12-month support extension or to buy a new PC — the option the marketeers are pushing hard,
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