While Windows 8 launched in 2012 and its successor, 8.1, will stop receiving support in January of 2023, Windows 10 will simply be doing the same thing, having shown up in 2015 and with plans to bow out in 2025. Then again, if you are on Windows 7, let's recall that it entered the market in October 2009 and formally exited in early 2020. According to Microsoft, it 'will continue to support at least one Windows 10 release until October 14, 2025.' After that point, Win10's future is unclear, and it's only three years away. That wouldn't be a problem were Windows 10 long for this world, but it isn't. Windows 11's adoption has been glacially slow, and for good reason: around 40 percent of devices that run Windows are unable to upgrade due to the onerous, yet apparently arbitrary, hardware requirements Microsoft put on the OS.

What's Microsoft been up to? A quick tour of Windows 11 22H2's security features.

Microsoft warns: Windows 11 update breaks provisioning.

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More than 4 in 10 PCs still can't upgrade to Windows 11 Touch and hold the tile of the device you want to cast your screen to.

Microsoft fixes printing gremlin, ends that block on Windows 11 upgrades.

It only just recently surpassed Windows 7 in PC OS market share, reaching 13.5 percent to Windows 7's 10.7 percent. That's good in theory, but the news around Windows 11 isn't great. Download and open Switcher Cast on your Mac desktop.

Numbers vary slightly depending on who you ask, but it's generally believed that around 70 percent of PCs are running Windows 10. As Reg readers know, Chrome will still work on Windows 7 and 8.1 after support ends, but the browser won't get any additional updates – security patches included.

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