Microsoft to stop supporting Windows 10 on Oct 14; here's what that means for you


Support from third-party software providers is also expected to be dropped in the following years due to security concerns. — Photo by Clint Patterson on Unsplash

While Windows 11 has been out for a little over four years at this point, as of September this year, 40.5% of Windows users are still on the older Windows 10, according to web analytics provider Statcounter.

Now that Microsoft is ending support for the decade-old Windows 10 on Oct 14, holdouts on the operating system face larger bugbears than simply not getting updates for the latest features.

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