Microsoft is once again increasing the pressure on Windows 10 users to finally upgrade to Windows 11. The US IT news magazine Windowslatest reports that Microsoft is now putting a full-screen advertisement for Windows 11 in front of some Windows 10 users. This always seems to be the case when Windows 10 users have installed an optional update from January 2024 on their Windows 10 PCs.
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Microsoft is going all out: the user is not presented with a small popup, but rather the advertisement for the upgrade to Windows 11 covers the entire screen and, on top of that, there are several sliders to click through. According to Windowslatest, there are a total of four slides that the user can click through. In the slides, Microsoft tries to make the advantages of Windows 11 palatable without pointing out the possible problems of an upgrade, for example due to incompatible hardware.
There are two buttons at the bottom right of the slider: one to reject the upgrade and one highlighted in color to download Windows 11 in the background. Microsoft is trying to lure users with the promise that they will have the opportunity to return to Windows 10 up to ten days after upgrading to Windows 11. In addition, all existing files would be retained during the upgrade.
Microsoft has a good reason for promoting Windows 11 so heavily. Many more people still use Windows 10 instead of Windows 11. According to Statcounter, 66.45 percent of all Windows computers evaluated by Statcounter had Windows 10 installed and only 27.82 percent were running Windows 11.
As early as February 2023 and May 2023, Microsoft harassed Windows 10 users with a nag screen to upgrade to Windows 11. At that time it was also a full-screen advertisement.
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The end of support for Windows 10
Microsoft will provide updates for Windows 10 for the last time on October 14, 2025. After that it’s basically over. Unless you are willing to pay for additional security updates. Microsoft wants to provide paid updates for Windows 10 after October 2025 as part of the “Extended Security Updates”. This means you should be able to use Windows 10 safely until 2028.
