{"id":795,"date":"2025-01-16T03:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2025-01-16T03:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:38:40","slug":"microsoft-is-axing-support-for-its-own-apps-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/01\/16\/microsoft-is-axing-support-for-its-own-apps-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is axing support for its own apps on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/surface-laptop-7-06.jpg?resize=1000%2C600&amp;p=1\" alt=\"The Surface Laptop 7 on a table in front of a window.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft hasannouncedthat support for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 will end this year on October 14, as reported byThe Verge. This is also the end-of-support date for Windows 10 as a whole, but the move is still a little surprising considering that Microsoft is now offering theWindows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who joins this program for $30 can continue to safely use Windows 10 for a whole extra year \u2014 so you might think that Microsoft would let them continue to use the Office apps too. That said, it\u2019s not like the apps will disappear, they just won\u2019t receive any more updates.<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/what-windows-end-of-support-means-for-office-and-microsoft-365-34e28be4-1e4f-4928-b210-3f45d8215595#ID0EBH=Microsoft_365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to Microsoft<\/a>, this could cause \u201cperformance and reliability issues over time\u201d but whether these issues will pop up within the ESU program\u2019s duration or not is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Theswitch from Windows 10 to Windows 11has been long and painful for Microsoft \u2014 even after three years, there\u2019s still a substantial chunk of people who are still using the older operating system. There are plenty of reasons why \u2014 lots of people still use machines that don\u2019t meetWindows 11 hardware requirements, and others have been permanently scared off by years of scathing public opinion that Windows 11 is nowhere near as good as Windows 10. It\u2019s also taken a long time for gamers to come around to Windows 11, though itrecently overtook Windows 10for the first time in October 2024\u2019s Steam hardware survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/detail-Microsoft-1736009-G3HTA027H\">G3HTA027H Battery for Microsoft Surface Pro 4 1724 Tablet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever the reasons, this reluctance to upgrade has clearly been driving Microsoft insane. The company is trying everything from full-screen upgrade prompts to awkward marketing tactics declaring 2025 as \u201cthe year of the Windows 11 PC refresh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately for Microsoft, however, there is a huge number of people who only own PCs out of necessity and won\u2019t even think about replacing them until they literally stop working. There are also plenty of businesses reluctant to upgrade since their current company PCs still work perfectly well in every other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a lot of ways, it feels like the world just didn\u2019t need another iteration of Windows yet. Perhaps the company really should consider supporting a basic no-new-stuff version of its OS for all the people who just don\u2019t care. It might be expensive, but surely all of this drama, failure, and marketing around upgrades is expensive too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft hasannouncedthat support for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 will end this year on October 14, as reported byThe Verge. This is also the end-of-support date for Windows 10 as a whole, but the move is still a little surprising considering that Microsoft is now offering theWindows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) Program. Anyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/01\/16\/microsoft-is-axing-support-for-its-own-apps-on-windows-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft is axing support for its own apps on Windows 10<\/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-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}