Office Apps on Windows 10 No Longer Tied To October 2025 End-of-Support Date 16
Microsoft has quietly extended support for Office applications running on Windows 10 well beyond the operating system's October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline. Microsoft 365 subscribers will now receive updates through October 2028, while perpetual license versions will follow their standard lifecycle policies -- Office 2021 until October 2026 and Office 2024 until October 2029.
Windows Defender malware definitions will also continue "through at least October 2028" despite Windows 10's imminent retirement. This reverses Microsoft's previous stance that all Office applications would become unsupported when Windows 10 reaches end-of-life.
Windows Defender malware definitions will also continue "through at least October 2028" despite Windows 10's imminent retirement. This reverses Microsoft's previous stance that all Office applications would become unsupported when Windows 10 reaches end-of-life.
Such a surprise (Score:3)
Maybe MicroShit has noticed how many people do not want their Win11 crap?
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That's why they're selling extended support for 10. Which would be kind of useless if Office didn't run on it.
Not your computer anymore (Score:3)
Good first step (Score:3)
Now do the whole thing and extend Win 10 support to 2028 as well!
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Now do the whole thing and extend Win 10 support to 2028 as well!
Guessing they'll wait until the last minute when they've squeezed as many as possible into buying new hardware ...
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What's the gap between Win10 supported hardware and hardware that Win11 doesn't support? Would a five year machine work? 10? Wondering what kind of treadmill they've set up.
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However, some corporate systems with TPM 2.0 that existed back in those days will install windows 11 without complaint on 6th and 7th gen intel. YMMV there.
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Hopefully not. I'm enjoying the herds of people finally getting a clue and upgrading to Linux.
Re:Good first step (Score:4, Insightful)
yeah, just be careful you dont get trampled by the stampede. /s
We need legally mandated long support dates (Score:2)
Re:We need legally mandated long support dates (Score:5, Insightful)
Ten years from the time an OS is released is a fairly long support period. Remember, this isn't "how long it will work", but "how long will they provided paid tech support reps", how long they will put the effort into supporting the lack of security in older Intel chips, and things like that. Oh, there are 35 new vulnerabilities found in old Intel chips that aren't supported under Windows 11, we need to put in the effort to secure Windows 10 as well?
When your primary level of support comes from people who volunteer to provide support, that's easy. When you have to pay people to provide support, there comes a point, "why are we putting paid resources into that old system from 10 years ago?" You don't see a lot of support for ANYTHING that is ten years old, and anything provided is going to be, "yea, we fixed that on the new products nine years ago now, and no one on my team remembers how to deal with it on the old products. So, we need to wait for an engineer to respond, and that may take a few days".
The need for TPM 2.0 was really a smoke screen for Microsoft to say, "We don't want to deal with the Intel insecure chips and the need to mitigate around their critical flaws". Because Intel was the BIG chip maker in 2018 when all of these security issues were really starting to get noticed, Microsoft could NOT say, "the problem is with Intel, and you need to go to them for the security fixes you are looking for". It just wasn't a good idea. In 2025, Microsoft could easily say that without it being a problem.
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I still remember the time of release of win10, when the pitch to sell it was "windows 10 upgrade is necessary so we can get everyone on same tech level. This will be the final version of windows, and you'll never need update to new one again".
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Up until 2018, Intel was the king in the CPU arena as well, but then, all those security issues became known about. Now, Intel is seen as garbage by the majority of those who pay attention to the industry. Microsoft had to come up with a way to dump those old Intel chips from being supported.
I can't recall (Score:2)
I can't recall the last time I opened a microsoft office product outside of outlook or whatever they call their email product now. All my "documents" live in some corporate intranet knowledge base of some kind, probably formatted in some variant of markdown.