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Users of Windows 10 who want to continue using this OS version can continue to receive security updates after Oct. 14, 2025 through Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. The tech giant announced this recently.

Microsoft’s support for the Windows 10 operating system is going to end in two years, it had previously announced. The end-of-life status of this version of the Windows OS has been set for Oct. 14, 2025. After that date, Windows 10 users will no longer receive any updates at all, including security updates.

Updates via ESU program

For organizations that, for whatever reason, do not want to migrate to Windows 11, which Microsoft of course strongly recommends, there is still an option to continue receiving security updates after the end-of-life date.

As with other Microsoft products, this is made possible through the Microsoft Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. For a fee, users may receive security-related updates for the Windows version for three years after the EOL date.

For this, users have to subscribe for each individual year. How much these specific update subscriptions will cost is not known. The fact that the costs are hefty and may become more expensive each year has already been seen with Microsoft’s ESU support for Windows 7.

A plus point is that ESU upgrades will soon be available not only to companies but also to individuals. More details on this are yet to come.

Windows 10 2H22 latest version

Microsoft announced that the current version of Windows 10, Windows 10 22H2, is the last version and will soon receive no more upgrades. It did recently add the AI assistant Copilot in a final update. The only updates Windows 10 gets now are security updates. This, as mentioned, runs through Oct. 14, 2025.

Microsoft, of course, hopes that more end users will soon switch from Windows 10 to Windows 11. However, stringent hardware requirements are considered a serious obstacle to this, and already seem to have curbed Windows 11 adoption.

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