{"id":477129,"date":"2023-01-20T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T14:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=477129"},"modified":"2023-01-20T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T14:01:44","slug":"beginning-of-the-end-for-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/477129-beginning-of-the-end-for-windows-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of the end for Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft will stop selling digital copies of Windows 10 Home and Pro on its website at the end of the month, a first indication that the company is shifting its attention away from the 7-year-old operating system (OS).<\/p>\n

Tom’s Hardware has spotted<\/strong><\/a> a disclaimer on the official product pages for the OS, which stated that 31 January 2023 will be the last day Windows 10 is on sale.<\/p>\n

The South African version of Microsoft’s website also showed the disclaimer.<\/p>\n

Microsoft currently sells a Windows 10 Home licence on its website for R3,099, while a Pro version will set you back R4,399.<\/p>\n

The screenshot below shows the disclaimer for Windows 10 sales coming to an end on the Microsoft website.<\/p>\n

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Legitimate copies of Windows 10 intended for personal use are also available from third-party retailers or are pre-installed on new computers.<\/p>\n

It is unclear whether Microsoft’s disclaimer means that it will stop offering new licences to these retailers or that the resellers would have to stop selling the operating system themselves.<\/p>\n

Aside from these sources, there are also numerous cheaper product keys for “grey” copies of Windows to buy online.<\/p>\n

These are generally spare unused keys resold by enterprises or OEMs that buy Windows licences in bulk.<\/p>\n

These keys are generally limited for a single computer and do not allow you to reinstall it on another machine.<\/p>\n

There are also many PCs currently on the market that still ship with Windows 10 pre-installed, as opposed to those that come with Microsoft’s latest OS \u2014 Windows 11.<\/p>\n

Windows 10 is incredibly popular<\/h2>\n

Having been around since July 2015 and with the once highly-popular Windows 7 reaching end-of-life in 2020, it is no wonder that Windows 10 is Microsoft’s most-used Windows version.<\/p>\n

According to GlobalStats StatCounter<\/strong><\/a>, the OS was running on 67.95% of Windows systems around the world by December 2022, a long way off the second-most prevalent option \u2014 Windows 11.<\/p>\n

The latter was running on 16.97% of PCs, a year and two months after its launch.<\/p>\n

The good news for fans of Windows 10 is that Microsoft will continue to support it with security updates until 14 October 2025.<\/p>\n

Windows 11 is available as a free update for users with legitimate Windows 10 licences, but some of its stringent system requirements might necessitate that many will first have to upgrade their machines.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Future versions of Windows will be AI-powered<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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