Microsoft still has a massive Windows 10 problem - and there's no easy way out
Published on: 2025-04-21 17:00:00
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Windows 10 is about to expire.
In less than six months, Microsoft's most successful operating system release ever will reach its end-of-support date. Like Monty Python's Norwegian Blue, it will be pushing up the daisies. It will have shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!
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How is this even possible? It feels like only yesterday, but in fact, Windows 10 was officially released to the public nearly a decade ago, in July 2015. Following on the heels of the ill-fated Windows 8, it became an unqualified success among consumers and business customers alike. And it's continued to be insanely popular more than three years after the release of its successor, Windows 11.
That's good news, right? Well, not exactly.
Microsoft has a big challenge on its hands in the run-up to that end-of-support date: convincing its enormous inst
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