Windows 10 has been out of regular support since October 2025, but Microsoft has given consumers considerably more time before its security-update lifeline disappears.
Microsoft extended its Windows 10 Extended Security Updates, or ESU, program for personal-use devices through Oct. 12, 2027, giving people with unsupported PCs another year of security coverage. Existing participants automatically roll into the additional year. Meanwhile, Microsoft is still actively patching enrolled Windows 10 systems, including through its July 14, 2026 cumulative security update.
For users keeping an older PC alive, the extension changes the calculation. Here…
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