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That's when Windows 10 stops getting security updates. Expect most software vendors to drop support for Windows 10 this year if they haven't already. That doesn't necessarily mean things will stop working, but it will not be tested and they won't spend time fixing Win10-specific problems.

In enterprise, you can get an additional three years of "extended security updates". That's your grace period to get everyone in your org upgraded.

While I strongly relate to anyone who hates Windows 11, "continue using Windows 10 forever" was never a viable long-term strategy.

Windows 10 was released in 2015. Ten years of support for an OS is industry-leading, on par with Red Hat or Ubuntu's enterprise offerings and far ahead of any competing consumer OS. Apple generally only offers three years of security updates. Google provides 3-4 years of security updates. Debian gets 5 years.

There has never been a time in the history of personal computing when using an OS for over 10 years without a major upgrade was realistic. That would be like using Windows 3.1 after XP was released. Windows 10 is dead, and it's been a long time coming.

Now go download Fedora.

They have always categorized the 365 apps, and 365 software as 2 distinct platforms. The apps are the website based versions, while the actual 365 installs were still considered a traditional install.

This could have changed in the years I worked for them, but this could be just impacting the website versions.

Edit -Rereading the article, this does sound like all 365 software will be impacted since they used the word applications. Keep in mind though, any office prior to 2013 is officially incompatible with 10/11, but they still run in most cases without problems.

For those about to switch, welcome to Linux! If you have AMD hardware give Linux Mint a shot. If you have NVIDIA, Pop!_OS is worth your first install.

See, there is absolutely no reason for this. It's simply out of spite for their users.

No thanks, it takes excel 2-3 seconds to load a blank document, which pisses me off every time.

LibreOffice, rise!

losing money in the general population so gotta turn the screws on the businesses.

The harder MS tries to force Win11 on me the clearer it becomes how bad it is.

I will move to another office suit,install, and learn a completely new OS like Linux after 40 years of Windows before I ever install their unnecessary and untrustworthy data-miner.

Win10 was bad but most of it could be removed/worked around. This time it's clearly war against typical users so F it I'm out.

Was already planning to switch to Linux but thanks for the deadline ✌️

I just realized. Windows 10 is being shelved but there is only one version ahead of it.

I remember xp still being considered good when i had win 8 installed.

How is that not understood as as a blatant attempt to maximize user control?

Actually looking at the numbers xp and 8.1 retired within 2 years of eachother. And 10 first got retired in 2020 a year before win 11 was released to make way of windows as a service updates which is actually what is getting retired later this year.

Microsoft kindly please get your shit together… or dont and strengthen my work requests to migrate systems to Linux.

So what's the news here? Win 10 support ends in october. Doesn't that automatically mean that they will also not support office apps running on Win 10 starting october?

That is pretty rough, even for Micor$oft.

Holy shit, that's quick

There’s another reason to stay on 10!