Nah, you’ve still got time. Treasure it. Hold your PC close.
Reading the news about Windows 10’s imminent demise on your Windows 10 PC? You might be wondering what will happen to your dear machine from October 14, 2025. The good news is, you don’t have to kiss it goodbye just yet. The bad news is, you probably should start thinking about an upgrade.
I won’t lecture you about upgrading your PC, as I assume you’re in this situation because 1) you can’t, or 2) you don’t want to. I respect it. You’re not alone: 32% of Steam gamers surveyed in September 2025 have yet to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11. If that’s a similar figure outside of the gaming sphere—in any case, I’d guess a greater number of non-gaming machines are still running Windows 10—that could be a big problem for users and Microsoft.
So, unless you’re planning to use your Windows 10 PC with an air gap, otherwise known as unplugging it from the internet and any other networks, you’d better take note of Microsoft’s end-of-life timeline here. I’ve gone through Microsoft’s many, many support documents on this. Each page seemingly covers the same basic information but no page has all the information. So, yeah, I had a bad afternoon sifting through it. I’ll try and make sense of it for you below.
First off, as a standard user—just your everyday PC gamer without any certificates suggesting you know about servers and stuff—Windows 10 support will cease on October 14, 2025. If you don’t do anything past this date, you will no longer receive the following:
Security updates
Feature updates
Technical support
Your PC will continue to function past this ‘death date’, however. As Microsoft notes, «While your Windows 10 PC will continue to function, it’ll no longer receive regular security updates, making the device more vulnerable and susceptible to viruses and malware.»
We report on malware, ransomware, and nefarious actors on the web all too regularly to ignore that word of warning.
