Microsoft will update Office apps on Windows 10 until 2028

Microsoft has backtracked on its plan to end support for Office apps on Windows 10 later this year and announced that it will continue providing security updates for three more years, until 2028. This announcement comes after the company warned in January that it would drop support for Microsoft 365 applications, and they'll have to upgrade their systems to Windows 11 to keep using them after October 14, 2025. "In the interest of maintaining your security while you upgrade to Windows 11, we will continue providing security updates for Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 for a total of three years after Windows 10 end of support, ending on October 10, 2028," Redmond says in a support document updated last month. In a separate document updated last week, the company added that these updates will be delivered using the standard Office update channels. "Although apps such as Word will continue to work after Windows 10 reaches end of support, using an unsupported operating system can cause perf ... Read full article.