Sudden reverse is bad news for Windows — what to know.
. So it seems the October 2025 hard red line was neither as hard nor as red as expected. Unfortunately, it seems this is a mistake affecting more than 400 million users.
Ironically, after years of trying, the week Microsoft chose to drop this bombshell was also the week its Windows 11 upgrade campaign finally started hitting home, with the newer version of the OS catching Windows 10’s market share for the first time.that can’t. With the upgrade program working, Microsoft should have limited its free support extension to only those with ineligible PCs. That’s where the upgrade complexity and cost lies.
Instead, any users favoring Windows 10 who would balk at paying the expected $30 12-month ESU price get a free extension, subject to using Microsoft’s cloud backup. It will be fascinating to see what happens to those upgrade stats over the coming weeks.In my view, Microsoft has missed a trick and this is a mistake. There was a genuine case to give ineligible PC owners more time to upgrade hardware, without giving the entire Windows 10 user base a break.
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