He October 14, 2025 It is a dated date by users of Windows 10. That day, Microsoft It will end the support to the most popular operating system in the last decade. You will not receive new features, something that already happens, Nor will there be security updates. New vulnerabilities that cybercriminals discover will not be solved by Microsoft and, as time goes by, A Windows 10 computer will be increasingly exposed to attacks and malware.
Although Windows 11attending to Stat Counter data, has achieved this July Overcome the Windows 10 market share (52% compared to 45%), the operating system launched in 2015 is still used by hundreds of millions of people and is part of many corporate networks that have a security problem if they do not update Windows 11. The discontent among users for this measure led Microsoft to offer Some options to extend this support. First, paying, but it has ended up opening the hand a little more and leaving users who want to expand it until October 2026 without scratching their pocket.
In April 2024, Microsoft announced its program Extended Security Updates, ESUfor business users, which extends the support up to 2028 charging a price higher than the previous one every year: 61 dollars the first, $ 122 and $ 244 per third. In total, $ 427 per team. Microsoft has not announced the specific prices for Europe in euros, but they would correspond approximately € 56, € 112, € 224, and the total would be of € 392.
Subsequently, for the private usersThe company announced that they could also access the ESU to obtain security updates for a year, Until October 13, 2026, through a unique payment of 30 dollarswhich corresponds to about € 28. Another option that users have to access the ESU is to redeem it for 1,000 points of Microsoft Rewards. These are points that Microsoft gives to users of their accounts for performing actions such as bing searches.
But the most interesting thing is that Microsoft explained a way to Get another year of support for free. The logical thing would be to think that if Microsoft has finally decided to expand it for the operating system that consumers acquired in their day, it was until now. That is, without doing anything and letting Windows Update will take care of the updates, but it goes to require that they be proactive and take some steps.
So you can expand free of charge 1 year the Windows 10 support
The way to obtain the expansion of the Windows 10 support without spending a euro is using Windows Backup (Windows backups). This is a tool, introduced first with Windows 11 and that later reached Windows 10, which allows Make backs from the operating system that are stored in the cloud of Microsoft, not on the computer itself.
The program has been designed for Facilitate the transition between teams with Windowsbeing able to install the backup hosted in the cloud on a new computer, with its folders, files, applications, configuration preferences and credentials.
The copy is housed in OneDrivethe cloud storage space that Microsoft associates to each of its accounts, so you must Make sure you have enough space to host the backup. Since the space that Microsoft gives to the free is only 5 GB And a Windows copy can occupy enough more, you may need to expand your capacity or reduce the copy to the minimum elements.
To use this Windows integrated tool, you have to write in the search box, next to the start button, Windows backup copies. When the result appears, Click on it to open the tool and follow the steps you tell you to make the backup. Once already done, Microsoft will keep the Windows security updates support until October 13, 2026.