Click the Accept and install button, and your Windows 10 PC will be upgraded to Windows 11. You should be able to use your PC during the download and installation. When the process is finished, ...

Officially, Microsoft will stop providing new security updates for Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, a little over a decade after its initial release. It's a stick that Microsoft is using to push ...

This offer is coming your way now. Republished on August 16 with Microsoft’s new 60-day warning. Microsoft has now issued its free update offer to millions more Windows 10 users. After this mandatory ...

With 42.6% of Windows users still on Windows 10, reports suggest Microsoft is disabling the update pause feature for those ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Republished on July 25 with analysis of Microsoft’s new update claims ...

Home users who sign in to Windows 10 with a Microsoft account can register for Extended Security Updates (ESU) at no cost and continue receiving free updates until October 14th, 2026. The first ...

October 15, 2025: Changed the headline and some of the copy to note that the one-year extended security updates can be opted into for free if you are logged into a Microsoft account and have your ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It’s time to get on board with Windows 11. Four years after launching its current operating system, ...

Windows 10 PCs not enrolled in ESU can no longer pause updates. A likely bug is forcing “Install updates as soon as possible” ...

As usual, Microsoft has fixed numerous security vulnerabilities in Windows 10 and Windows 11 with the big November patch this week. But this is the first big month forward for Windows 10 users, who ...

I activated that last week on my last computer not running Linux yet (gaming rig, and I don't really game anymore so I'm just procrastinating until the last minute), but at this point I've been ...