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Windows 10 Home
Microsoft officially ended free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — devices still running it no longer receive security updates unless enrolled in the consumer Extended Security Updates program.
Platform
Windows
Edition
Home
Released
July 2015
Support ends
October 2025 (Extended Security Updates available through October 2026 for enrolled consumer devices)
System requirements
1 GHz CPU, 1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit), 16GB-32GB storage, DirectX 9 GPU with WDDM 1.0 driver.
Windows 10 Home's mainstream support ended on October 14, 2025, meaning Microsoft no longer ships security patches, bug fixes, or technical support for it by default -- a genuinely important fact for anyone still running it, since an unpatched, internet-connected OS is a real security liability. Microsoft did open a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment option for the first time on a Home edition, letting individual users keep receiving critical security patches for one additional year through October 2026 (previously ESU was Enterprise/Volume-Licensing-only). Anyone on Windows 10 Home today should treat upgrading to Windows 11 (where the hardware supports it) or replacing the hardware as the priority, not indefinitely staying on ESU.
Release dates, support windows, and system requirements come from Microsoft's and Apple's own published lifecycle pages (linked above) — always confirm there before relying on this for a production/enterprise deployment decision, since support policies occasionally change.