Microsoft extends Office app support on Windows 10 to 2028

Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was readying to halt supporting Office apps (Microsoft 365) connected Windows 10 aft the October 14th extremity of enactment cutoff. Now, Microsoft is performing a U-turn and has pledged to proceed providing information updates for Office apps connected Windows 10 for an further 3 years.

“To assistance support information portion you modulation to Windows 11, Microsoft volition proceed providing information updates for Microsoft 365 Apps connected Windows 10 for 3 years aft Windows 10 reaches extremity of support,” says Microsoft successful an updated enactment article published past week. “These updates volition beryllium delivered done the modular update channels, ending connected October 10, 2028.”

Microsoft softly announced this three-year hold successful precocious April successful a separate enactment article for IT admins, and it reiterates that the Microsoft 365 apps volition “continue to relation arsenic before,” but that businesses should upgrade to Windows 11 “to debar show and reliability issues implicit time.”

This latest connection is simply a batch antithetic to the blog station Microsoft issued successful January that warned businesses that Office apps would nary longer beryllium supported connected Windows 10 aboriginal this year. “To usage Microsoft 365 Applications connected your device, you volition request to upgrade to Windows 11,” said Microsoft astatine the time.

Microsoft has been pushing consumers and businesses to upgrade to Windows 11 up of the extremity of enactment for Windows 10 connected October 14th. The institution declared astatine CES earlier this year that 2025 would beryllium “the twelvemonth of the Windows 11 PC refresh,” contempt Windows 11 adoption lagging down Windows 10.

Microsoft has besides been trying to person Windows 10 users to bargain a caller PC with full-screen prompts implicit the past year. Consumers who don’t privation to bargain a caller PC oregon upgrade to Windows 11 volition besides beryllium capable to acquisition Extended Security Updates for the archetypal time. You’ll person to pay $30 for an other twelvemonth of updates, portion businesses volition beryllium capable to purchase up to 3 years of extended updates.