Microsoft: Win10 service life cycle deadline 2025

Computer Store News: Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 is still a traditional 10-year support. This page shows, "The official version of Windows 10 released in July 2015"; service mainstream support end time is October 13, 2020, extended support end time is October 14, 2025, for a total of ten years.

Page Display The mainstream support for Windows 10 will stop on October 13, 2020. Like all Windows, it will stop mainstream support after 5 years of release. The end of mainstream support means that Microsoft will not add any major new features or improvements, but security updates and bug fixes will continue for five years until October 14, 2025.

The page has a footnote, which means that not all Windows 10 PCs will receive all the feature updates:

Updates are constantly accumulating, each The updates are based on all previous updates. The device needs to install the latest updates for support. Updates may include new features, fixes (security and/or non-security), or a combination of both. In an update package, not all features are available for all devices. If the hardware is not compatible, lacks drivers, or exceeds the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) support time limit, the device may not receive updates. The availability of updates may vary, such as country, region, network connection, mobile carrier, or hardware features (for example: free disk space).

Although there is no new Windows version after Win10, this system is the same as XP, Vista, Win7, Win8/Win8.1, and the continuation service support requires users to update the system. ; service package & rdquo;. Each time a new "Service Pack" is installed, a certain service support time will be extended based on the original end support date. Therefore, as a Win10 user, timely update of Win10 is the most important factor to maintain system security and vitality. So in the Win10 era, turning off automatic updates is extremely irresponsible and dangerous. Users can't listen to any third-party applications about "close Win10 built-in automatic updates", everything is subject to Microsoft's official information.

So if you upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, you should be able to get a 10-year support update from Microsoft.