{"id":1205,"date":"2025-09-16T23:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/consumer-reports-asks-microsoft-to-keep-supporting-windows-10\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:49:59","slug":"consumer-reports-asks-microsoft-to-keep-supporting-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/consumer-reports-asks-microsoft-to-keep-supporting-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports asks Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/STK109_WINDOWS_C.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Consumer Reports<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/advocacy.consumerreports.org\/research\/consumer-reports-calls-on-microsoft-to-extend-support-for-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling on Microsoft<\/a> to extend the October 14th deadline that will cut off free security updates for Windows 10 computers. In <a href=\"https:\/\/advocacy.consumerreports.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CR-Windows-transition-letter-9.16.25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter to Microsoft CEO<\/a> Satya Nadella, <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> says the move will \u201cstrand millions of consumers\u201d who have machines incompatible with Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As noted by <em>Consumer Reports<\/em>, data suggests that around 46.2 percent of people around the world still use Windows 10 as of August 2025, while around 200 to 400 million PCs can\u2019t be upgraded to Windows 11 due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/4\/24312928\/microsoft-windows-11-older-hardware-tpm-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missing hardware requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In the letter, <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> calls Microsoft \u201chypocritical\u201d for urging customers to upgrade to Windows 11 to bolster cybersecurity, but then leaving Windows 10 devices susceptible to cyberattacks. It also calls out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/31\/24284398\/microsoft-windows-10-extended-security-updates-consumer-pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$30 fee Microsoft<\/a> charges customers for \u201ca mere one-year extension to preserve their machine\u2019s security,\u201d as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/691811\/microsoft-windows-10-free-extended-security-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free support options<\/a> that force people to use Microsoft products, allowing the company to \u201ceke out a bit of market share over competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Consumer Reports<\/em> asks that Microsoft continue providing support for Windows 10 computers for free until more people have upgraded to Windows 11. A Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/microsoft\/windows-10\/pirg-microsoft-extra-year-of-windows-10-security-isnt-viable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has also petitioned<\/a> for an extended deadline, <a href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/take-action\/tell-microsoft-to-extend-free-support-for-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> \u201cas many as 400 million perfectly good computers that can\u2019t upgrade to Windows 11 will be thrown out.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer Reports is calling on Microsoft to extend the October 14th deadline that will cut off free security updates for [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}