Windows 10: Microsoft gives up, extends Windows 10’s support for free if you meet the requirements

Windows 10 support isn’t really ending on October 14, 2025, anymore if you’re willing to link your Microsoft account. If you don’t want to link your Microsoft account or create a new one with the “sync” feature turned on, you can still keep using Windows 10, but in that case, you’ve two options: use Microsoft Rewards points (1,000) or pay $30 to extend updates by another year.

If you take any of the paths I mentioned, you can get Windows 10 security updates until October 14, 2026. While Microsoft is not explicitly stating it anywhere, the company changed its plans after it realised that millions of users are refusing to dump the decade-old operating system.

Microsoft confirmed that it’ll begin rolling out a pop-up that allows everyone to extend Windows 10’s support. This pop-up will show up in July after the mandatory Patch Tuesday updates. You’ll see a new enrollment wizard in Settings or through a notification. And clicking on the notifications, you’ll be given three ways to extend support:

• Sync your settings to the cloud with Windows Backup
• Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
• Want a local account? Just pay $30

If you follow any one of these paths, your PC will get critical and important security updates through October 13, 2026. That’s one full year of support, even after the official cutoff.

The free enrollment option is now available in the Windows Insider Program. Starting July, it’ll roll out to all Windows 10 users, with full availability expected by mid-August.

This is a developing story….

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Microsoft Botches Up UEFI Support for Windows 7 on ASUS Motherboards



Microsoft suggests updating to Windows 10 to patch Windows 7

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• 05 May 2016

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MICROSOFT HAS confirmed a potentially lappy-borking problem that it won't be fixing, because Windows 7.

Woody Leonhard, the respected Windows columnist, points to a problem involving Asus motherboards, which also appear rebadged in a variety of other manufacturers' machines, and the activation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 7 in a patch KB3133977.

Short version: install update, welcome to Borksville, population you.

Both Asus and Microsoft acknowledged the problem. Microsoft entitled the article "BitLocker can't encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2", but we prefer to just call it "Trevor for brevity."

The firm's advice was that it's an optional update, leave well alone, you'll be fine, or alternatively turn secure boot off.

Then Microsoft did a silly, silly thing.

It moved the update from 'optional' to 'recommended' and anyone who reads this site regularly will know what happens when Microsoft does this. That's right boys and girls - it makes it automatically install, unless you've specifically told your machine not to.

So now, if you have one of the affected motherboard and you keep your security updates automatic like wot Microsoft recommends, then your machine will stop working properly.

We should add it's not permanently bricked, but it will take some mucking about in the BIOS to fix and that's a pain even for an experienced computer user.

Microsoft has, by offering a workaround, suggested heavily that it won't be fixing the problem, though we have asked the question, so expect a response in about a fortnight.

But the real kicker is this piece of advice: "Note The Secure Boot feature is supported in Windows 10. To learn more about the security advantages of this feature and about the upgrade path from Windows 7 to Windows 10, go to the following Windows website"

Holy toledo, this company really knows how to rub people up the wrong way.

After all - if the advice is to manually avoid the update or move to a version of the operating system where there's virtually no control over updates, then Microsoft is dealing in massive contradictions.

A more cynical site would suggest that it's yet another example of Microsoft running Windows 7 into the ground and adding built in obsolescence to encourage quicker updates. But we're not that sort of site.

Its the patching to force secure boot that is the problem win 7 does not support secure boot
hence it borks systems and well microsofts answer is Cactus >your Asshole > insert

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Windows 11 CPU not supported but meeting minimum requirements

Hi,

maybe noone can have an easy answer here, but i'd like to know why the CPU I have on a tiny and maybe a bit old computer, an Intel Celeron J1900, which is a quad core CPU running at 2.0GHz is not supported by Windows 11 installer if the minimum CPU requirements to run Windows 11 are a 1.0GHz dual core CPU. And well, looking at the list, I'm pretty sure there are more CPUs in the same state, meeting the requirements, but not on the list, so unable to install Windows 11, even if Windows 10 runs perfectly and most probably Windows 11 will too.

Regards.