Back in the fall, I said Microsoft was going to have to extend Windows 10 support again. The numbers made it obvious. There were simply too many machines still running it, and not enough realistic paths to Windows 11 for a huge chunk of users. Now here we are.
Microsoft has quietly added another year to its Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10, pushing support out to October 12, 2027. That gives users an extra twelve months of critical security patches beyond the original cutoff, and it confirms what a lot of us in IT already suspected. Windows 10 was never going away on Microsoft’s original timeline. [Read more…]
Microsoft has closed the door on one of the most widely used tricks for activating Windows 11 without paying for it. The company pushed out new security updates this month that permanently disable a set of PowerShell scripts known as MAS, short for Microsoft Activation Scripts. The tools, created by a group called Massgrave, had been circulating on GitHub for years and gave users a quick way to unlock Windows or Office without a valid license. 
After nearly a decade, Microsoft is finally closing the book on Windows 10. As of today, free support and regular security patches have officially ended. But despite the headlines, your computer is not about to implode. If you plan wisely, or even just use decent security software, you can keep running Windows 10 safely for a quite a bit longer. 
After 40 years of glaring blue error messages and frowny faces, Microsoft is giving the infamous Blue Screen of Death a final sendoff. Starting later this summer, Windows 11 devices will crash in a new color. Say hello to the Black Screen of Death.
Microsoft will continue rolling out security updates for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 until October 2028, extending support three years past the operating system’s planned end-of-life.