{"id":123962,"date":"2021-06-19T01:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T08:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/windows-10-has-only-4-years-left-to-live-officially"},"modified":"2021-06-19T01:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T08:22:30","slug":"windows-10-has-only-4-years-left-to-live-officially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/windows-10-has-only-4-years-left-to-live-officially","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 has only 4 years left to live (officially)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/windows-10-has-only-4-years-left-to-live-officially2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft will soon announce <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/microsoft-windows-release-june-24\">the next version of Windows on June 24<\/a>. But before that happens, the company has already <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/lifecycle\/products\/windows-10-home-and-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">declared<\/a> that it\u2019s ending support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Thurrott, this is the first time the firm has specified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/windows\/windows-10\/251736\/windows-10-support-ends-on-october-14-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an end date for the entire operating system<\/a>. Windows 10 was originally unveiled in 2015, so it will have had a good run of 10 years \u2014 suits its name too.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for you when Microsoft will end support for Windows 10? Well, for starters, you\u2019ll stop receiving software updates, and there will be no new features added to the operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will soon announce the next version of Windows on June 24. But before that happens, the company has already declared that it\u2019s ending support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. As noted by Thurrott, this is the first time the firm has specified an end date for the entire operating system. Windows 10 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}