Windows 10 will be gone very soon

It has come to light that the support for Windows 10 will end on October 14th, 2025. But the catch here is that for a few bucks, you can get Extended Security Updates for one year. This is just a very new thing that Microsoft has done. Let's take a technical look at this.

Windows updates are important because they help keep your computer secure and running smoothly. During the development of new features, there can be some new bugs in the system. To make sure that you are not vulnerable to those bugs, we need to update Windows on a regular basis. With the updates, it is said that there are some performance improvements, too, with the removal of cache data from the system.

After the time for Windows 10 is over, the PC that still has Windows 10 will still receive some updates regarding the Critical and Important security updates but there will be no update from Microsoft for new features, bug fixes, and technical support.

The price for 1 year of Extended Security Updates will be $61 for businesses with the price doubling every year.

With this move, it looks like Microsoft is forcing people to move to Windows 11. Unlike moving from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 the CPU support for Windows 11 is limited, CPUs released after 2018 with TPM security chips are the only devices that support Windows 11.

With the ESU program users will receive only updates on critical security issue patches which will be identified by Microsoft's Security Response Center. There will be no new feature update or any bug fixes available with this update. This feature will be activated after 14th October 2025 after the support for Windows 10 will be disabled.

Yes and No, The answer is very dicey at this time.

This program is basically aimed at big organizations having a large number of PCs that can have difficulty moving to Windows 11 as there can be hardware issues or there can be some software that only runs on Windows 10.

For a single user (eg Home PC/ Personnel laptop), so if your hardware doesn't support requirements for Windows 11 like no TPM 2.0 support or Secure Boot not available then you should definitely go for the ESU program for 30$ per year you are able to secure your PC from all the known threats.

But if your system supports the minimum requirements for Windows 11 then you may get Windows 11 as it is priced at around 120$ which is equal to the price for 3 years of updates and as Windows 11 is fairly new so u will surely get updates for windows 11 after 3 years too if you get one while in case if you get the Windows 10 ESU program then after 3 years there will be no updates and you will have to eventually move to windows 11. So better to move now than to wait for 3 years.