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Unless Microsoft didn’t already done a lot of course he wants you upgrade your Windows 10 PC this yearthe company announced that it will stop supporting Office applications on the old OS in October.
In a blog postMicrosoft has confirmed that to continue using the Microsoft 365 suite of applications on your machine, you will need to “upgrade to Windows 11” by October 14 – the same day that support will also end for Windows 10. Windows 11 it will also require updating your machine.
That’s because Windows 11 has some pretty heavy hardware requirements which millions of older machines cannot meet, and Microsoft has already confirmed that it does not intend to modify those prerequisites.
He is so confident in the move that Yusef Mehdi, Microsoft’s marketing chief declared 2025 “the year of the Windows 11 PC upgrade”.
“Whether your current PC needs a refresh, or if it has security vulnerabilities that require the latest hardware-backed protection, now is the time to move forward with a new Windows 11 PC,” he wrote in another. blog postearlier this month.
It is fair to say that some of the machines that will not meet those minimum hardware requirements could be approaching 10 yearsand could probably do with an update anyway. But it is also true that the large number of Windows 10 machines here – data published by Statcounter in December 2024 suggests that there are almost double the number of PCs running Windows 10 than Windows 11 – it means that they will all be switched before the end of support is unlikely.
There is good news for any Windows 10 users who hope to stick and still use their Office apps. Like the operating system itself, Microsoft 365 will not fall off a cliff and will stop working on October 14. he confirmed that Office apps “will continue to function as before,” but that there could be “performance and reliability issues over time” as security and feature updates stop coming.
If that’s your tactic, it might be worth considering Microsoft’s extended security updateswhich are offered to consumers for the first time. Users can pay $30 to keep their PCs safe with updates for a year, while businesses can protect their machines for up to three. It won’t stop your apps from falling out of date, of course, but at least they’ll help keep the bad ones out while you plot your next move.
