This just in…
Microsoft now says: “In the interest of maintaining your security while you upgrade to Windows 11, we will continue providing security updates for Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 for a total of three years after Windows 10 end of support, ending on October 10, 2028.”
Hard to believe they’ll really pull the plug on supporting around a third of all Windows installs too, it’s at least 500 million devices! Even if they don’t officially back-down they would surely have to push out security patches to everyone if a major flaw is found.
…if you extrapolate those numbers to the worldwide population of Windows PCs, you can see the problem. Over the past eight months, about 1.6% of Windows 10 PCs have been replaced by Windows 11 PCs each month. At that pace, about 35% of those 1.4 billion devices will still be running Windows 10 when October 2025 rolls around…
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-still-has-a-massive-windows-10-problem-and-theres-no-easy-way-out/
I guess it’s fair to say this is mainly aimed at big institutions, would you say?
In that, if as a consumer you can only get 1 year extended support of Win 10, then really that’s only 1 year of (secure) extended support of 365 too.
Does seem like the pushback might be getting to them though…
Yes - I think you’re right.
The oddness is that their offering to support an App on an unsupported OS - which seems like madness but…
I agree Lee - cannot see how that works. I would advise everyone to start looking at alternative - Windows 11 (buy new hardware - not very green of Microsoft) or Linux. My favourite right now is linux Mint and Zorin OS (this interface will appeal to mac and windows users)
New potentially free route to a year of updates