Keeping your copy of Windows up-to-date with security fixes is critical, and for Windows 10 users it will soon be optional. Microsoft wants $30 to keep you secure.

Microsoft is officially ending mainstream support for Windows 10 in October, 2025. And the company really wants users to migrate to Windows 11 – either by updating the operating system on an existing PC or buy purchasing a new PC if their current computer doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements (and a lot of fairly recent models don’t ).

But Microsoft announced today that end users would only be able to buy a single year of extended security updates for their Windows 10 PCs at the price of $30 per PC. The company confirmed to us that the second and third years of security updates would be exclusive to businesses and schools.

Microsoft is modernizing how its Windows Hello authentication, which includes facial and fingerprint recognition, works in Windows 11. The revamp to the Windows Hello experience is now in beta testing with Windows Insiders,

If you’re running Windows 10 and want to use it beyond the bitter end of support next fall, Microsoft has a deal for you: $30 for a year of updates. The software giant announced that, closer to the October 14,