Windows 10 is here to stay (for just a little longer)

As you may have already heard, Windows 10 reached its end of life on October 14, 2025, and users are encouraged to upgrade to Windows 11.

With a track record of several hits and some glorious misses in Microsoft's history of Windows operating systems releases (we doubt there's anyone out there who really misses creations such as Windows Vista or Windows 8), Windows 10 is considered to be one of the better operating systems, and the more stable one out of all versions.

Now, and as the saying goes - "all good things must come to an end" - Did Windows 10 finally meet its inevitable doom with Microsoft stopping support for this long serving product, or has it really?

While it is true that users will no longer receive security updates, technical support, or feature updates from Microsoft for the operating system, Windows 10 itself will remain fully functional, and with an estimate of about 400 million Windows 10 devices that may remain in use after the end of support, as many older PCs do not meet the requirements for upgrading to Windows 11, it is safe to say that Windows 10 is not going anywhere anytime soon.

So should you be using Windows 10 after Microsoft has stopped supporting it?

Absolutely - yes!

If you or your company own old computers that are still running on Windows 10, our advice is to make sure they are protected by a third-party security software that is updated regularly. Microsoft's drop of support for Windows 10 means that you would now have to rely upon other products to protect your computer, and there are plenty of security suites by all major cybersecurity companies that will guarantee a continued safe and protected usage of your aging PC.

We believe that unless you have the requirement to use advanced AI tools that require more powerful computers, and as long as the applications that you use in Windows 10 haven't reached their own end-of-life, and as long as those applications are still supported in Windows 10 by the software companies that make them, we see no reason to throw away money on newer hardware or to upgrade to the much more 'intrusive' Windows 11.

While Microsoft may have washed its hands off Windows 10, other software companies know that there is still a huge market of older computers to serve and protect, and so we believe that Windows 10 is here to stay, if only for just a little while longer.