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Windows 10 won't go away until 2025, but the fine print says you must keep your PC up to date in other ways to avoid being cut off from support.

With Windows 11 now available, the question of how long Microsoft will continue to support Windows 10 has gotten more pressing. Not everyone is a fan of the new version of the OS, and there are certainly reasons you may not not want to upgrade to Windows 11. Now that Internet Explorer is officially gone, you may be wondering when Windows 10 will experience that same fate.

During its announcements of the Windows 11 rollout, Microsoft reiterated that Windows 10 would remain supported until October 14, 2025. The company put it in writing, too, in a blog post that confirms the date. This applies to both Home and Pro versions of Windows 10. This information has been public since the initial launch of Windows 10, documented in Microsoft's product lifecycle pages all along. That date is a little more than 10 years after the initial release of Windows 10, which is the standard lifecycle length for major Windows versions.The end of Windows 10 has implications for those with PCs that don't support Windows 11, which requires a recent CPU and a TPM security chip, and support for Secure Boot.

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