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October marks the final official Patch Tuesday for Windows 10.
This month's update included a record 173 security fixes.
All the new and improved features were reserved for Windows 11.
Microsoft has released its October Patch Tuesday update for Windows. Though that's business as usual, this marked the final monthly update for Windows 10 after 10 years of support. All the cool new features and enhancements were reserved for Windows 11, but both versions of Windows received a whopping number of security patches.
Security patches
With the latest updates for all versions of Windows, Microsoft has delivered a hefty 173 security patches, a record amount for 2025. Among these, nine are rated critical, according to patch management provider Action1, while six are zero-day exploits. Three of them have already been exploited in the wild, and three others have publicly available proofs of concept, which means sample code is publicly available to show how the flaw can be exploited.
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