14, 2025, deadline was new and newsworthy.Īlthough Microsoft said six years ago that Windows 10 would exit support in a decade, just like every other version of its operating system, during those years everyone forgot the pledge. It's not surprising that so many thought the Oct. In other words, no matter how many online articles assert the 2025 retirement is a new thing, a deadline only now expressed by Microsoft, that's simply not so. (Although the Wayback Machine was explicit on the history of the Home/Pro and Enterprise/Education SKUs' end-of-support pages, Computerworld reporters, who have visited those URLs scores of times this year alone to verify retirement dates for specific feature upgrades, didn't remember the big blue box and didn't notice the 10-year ending for Windows 10 overall. 14, 2025, date and even the highlighted warning since at least October 2020, according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. In fact, the support URLs cited by and echoed by other outlets have included the Oct. Since January 2015, Microsoft had said that 10 would be sustained "for the supported lifetime of the device," a brand new phrase that it infuriatingly refused to define no matter how many times it was asked to do so. (So, exactly as was, say, Windows 7 and all the Windows before that.) As Computerworld reported that July, Microsoft's accounting of that 10-year stretch of support for Windows 10 finally clarified Microsoft's obtuse statements about support.
Weeks before Windows 10 July 29, 2015, launch, Microsoft declared that it would support the OS with updates for 10 years, until October 2025, and in the traditional Mainstream and Extended periods of half a decade each.
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