On the off-chance you're not already aware and are just joining us like Ash Williams in the original ending of Army of Darkness, Microsoft's official support of Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025. But rather than a hard cutoff, Microsoft is continuing to blur the edge of this deadline by extending support in specific use cases.
The latest end-of-support caveat is that the Windows 10 versions of the Microsoft 365 suite of applications—that's your PowerPoint slides, Word documents, and your Excel spreadsheets—will continue to receive security updates for another three years, until October 10, 2028 (via The Verge). That said, Microsoft will still advise users to upgrade their OS—especially if they encounter an issue in the Windows 10 version of any of their Office apps that can't be replicated in Windows 11.
