By Zak Doffman
Publication Date: 2025-11-27 15:10:00
Alarmiung new data as security disaster looks.
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So, this is alarming and new. It turns out the “looming security disaster” for Windows users may be even worse than we feared. Microsoft is pushing continuous update warnings, and a billion Windows users may be at risk.
This is all about Windows 10 which came crashing down to its end-of-life last month, with hundreds of millions of users still on board. Microsoft has given all those users an extended security update lifeline, but warns it’s nowhere close to Windows 11 and all those users should upgrade their OS — or if that’s not possible, their PC.
We had assumed around 550 million PCs are still running Windows 10, out of the 1.4 billion market total. And we had also assumed around half of those were older PCs, ineligible for a Windows 11 upgrade without some form of workaround.
But now Dell, (via Windows Latest)…