Windows 10 extended security updates

Microsoft is dropping support for Windows 10 in October 2025. You may wonder if that's a big deal or not. Well, for some people, it is.

Windows 11 has some pretty serious hardware requirements. That means someone (maybe you) could have a perfectly good computer that is missing some component that is a requirement of Windows 11. A perfectly good computer may not support Windows 11. Or is it that Windows 11 may not support a perfectly good computer. Either way, that is a situation where the operating system becomes out of date in less than two years. To me, that's a big deal.

What does Microsoft say to do? They offer three options:

• "Refresh ineligible PCs to new Windows 11 eligible devices." That means buy a new computer.
• "Migrate to Windows 11 in the cloud with Windows 365." This is really an option for businesses, but if you have a business with a lot of Windows 10 computers that can't upgrade to Windows 11, this may be an option.
• "Extended Security Update program for Windows 10." Yep, pay Microsoft for security updates.

Britec has a video telling all about this:

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My Streaming Life does use Windows. My Plex server is running on Windows 10. I'll be changing that soon. Whether it's to Windows 11 (my comptuer is compatible), or moving to a Linux server, I'm not sure. I have done Raspberry Pi as a Plex server, and that has worked well. I'll make up my mind soon enough. I just don't like being foreced into a move.