Microsoft Quietly Extends Windows 10 ESU For One More Year

Microsoft will extend the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) for one more year, it appears: There’s no announcement (yet), but the Microsoft website was changed to indicate the extension.

“Windows 10 support has ended,” the Microsoft website reads. ”You can enroll in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program any time until the program ends on October 12, 2027.”

That wasn’t the original promise: The ESU for consumers was originally scheduled to end in October 2026. Which you can see by viewing the page linked above in the Way Back Machine. As recently as May, that page still read October 13, 2026.

Given all the work that Microsoft is doing to improve the quality of Windows 11 this year, the ESU extension is perhaps not unsurprising. And it’s possible that this is tied to a presumed Windows 12 release that may or may not come in the next year, component crisis notwithstanding.