Windows 11 is getting between 1 percent and 2 percent of usage share per month currently, which means that there is a chance that Windows 10 could still be the most used Windows version by October 2025. Knowing Microsoft, it will probably exclude Home users again. Whether it will again be limited to Enterprise and business customers, or also available to Home users remains to be seen. It seems unlikely that the company is going to end support in 2025 if the percentage of customers stuck on Windows 10 is large enough.Ī new ESU, Extended Security Updates, offer for Windows 10 could extend support by a few years. Microsoft has a few options in 2025 to deal with this. Only Microsoft knows approximate numbers, but it will be a considerable percentage of the entire userbase. The requirements mean, that a good portion of the Windows userbase is stuck on Windows 10 when 2025 comes along. Windows 7 and even earlier devices, may be upgraded all the way to Windows 10, but the official upgrade path ends there if the device does not meet the minimum system requirements of Windows 11. Millions of Windows 10 systems can’t be upgraded to Windows 11, at least not officially. The new operating system has stricter hardware requirements, unlike previous Windows releases, which did not change these requirements. One of the main reasons is that Microsoft disrupted the option to upgrade to the next version of Windows when it released Windows 11. Microsoft could extend support for Windows 10, and there is a good chance that it will.

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