ZDNET's key takeaways October marks the final official Patch Tuesday for Windows 10.This month's update included a record 173 security fixes.All the new and improved features were reserved for Windows 11.

For those with incompatible Windows 10 PCs, Microsoft is offering a paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to provide security patches for another year.

For many folks, the hullabaloo this week about Windows 10’s demise feels overblown—after all, as Brad pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft is offering different ways to extend security updates. The hardware apocalypse we all anticipated won’t happen for another year. I still believe it matters for a couple of reasons.

ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft Defender will continue to work in Windows 10.Defender will receive regular security updates until October 2028.Microsoft still recommends Windows 11 for new security patches.

Microsoft isn’t going to issue any further feature updates, meaning Windows 10 won’t receive any visual changes, new utilities, or similar. But given the last version of Windows 10 is 22H2, which was released in October 2022, you haven’t been missing anything for years anyway.

Microsoft está animando a las personas a hablar con sus laptops mientras lanza nuevas actualizaciones de inteligencia artificial para Windows 11 e impulsa a los usuarios a dejar al Windows 10.

Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for Windows 10 through its ESU program, but signing up isn't always easy.

Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 today, after originally releasing the OS on July 29th, 2015. The cutoff means Microsoft will no longer provide software updates from Win