{"id":1567,"date":"2025-06-25T02:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2025-06-25T02:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:52:44","slug":"windows-10-gets-an-extra-year-of-free-security-updates-with-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/06\/25\/windows-10-gets-an-extra-year-of-free-security-updates-with-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 gets an extra year of free security updates (with a catch)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’ll have to turn on Windows Backup, or redeem some of those unused rewards points you got from Bing. But Windows 10 is getting a stay of execution, without the $30 charge.\"Windows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a long time, there\u2019s been a Sword of Damocles hanging over the PC users who didn\u2019t want to give up Windows 10, no matter how much Microsoftbegged them to upgrade to 11 and\/or buy a new laptop. As the countdown to October kept ticking, we were wondering if Microsoft would relent for millions of users in no mood to change. As it turns out, they have\u2026with some quid pro quos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be clear, this isn\u2019t exactly a reprieve for Windows 10. The operating system, which is approaching its tenth birthday in July, won\u2019t get any significant feature updates after it loses hits end of life in October. But Microsoft is expanding the Extended Security Updates program, cruciallyremoving the $30 fee for its first year\u2026if you use Windows Backup to sync your Windows settings to OneDrive. Alternately, you canuse 1000 Microsoft Rewards pointsto get the same benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t want to do either of those, you\u2019ll want to cough up $30 USD to extend full support to October 13th, 2026. Businesses and commercial organizations have some other options \u2014 if you\u2019re a Fortune 100 company with about ten thousand machines and you don\u2019t feel like upgrading to Windows 11 just yet, Microsoft is much more likely to listen to your concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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October 15th, 2025is still going to be something of a deadline for most regular users, who need to exercise one of those three options above or stop receiving crucial security and stability updates. But on the other hand, it might not be as dire a situation as that sounds like, at least initially. Microsoft will continue to updateWindows\u2019 free, default Defender Antiviruson Windows 10 through October 2028, and that\u2019s the first line of defense in terms of security from things like viruses, trojans, and spyware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Microsoft would still very much prefer you to upgrade to Windows 11\u2026or better yet, just buy a new PC. (Those Copilot+ laptopsaren\u2019t going to sell themselves, after all.) In fact,the Windows Experience Blogstill calls 2025 \u201cthe year of the Windows 11 PC refresh\u201d even as it gives you two new, free options to put off that refresh for another year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybeall those baked-in advertisementsand pushes to use questionably-necessary AI tools (and theexpensive subscription they require) aren\u2019t going over as well as some of the higher-ups in Redmond would have liked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You’ll have to turn on Windows Backup, or redeem some of those unused rewards points you got from Bing. But Windows 10 is getting a stay of execution, without the $30 charge. For a long time, there\u2019s been a Sword of Damocles hanging over the PC users who didn\u2019t want to give up Windows 10, … Continue reading Windows 10 gets an extra year of free security updates (with a catch)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}