{"id":221104,"date":"2025-10-13T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/221104\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:48:13","slug":"microsoft-stops-200-million-windows-updates-do-not-lose-all-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/221104\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Stops 200 Million Windows Updates\u2014Do Not Lose All Your Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Windows<\/p>\n

Do not take risks with your data.<\/p>\n

SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Microsoft is killing Windows 10. The long-awaited end-of-life date is October 14, just two days from now<\/a>. Whatever happens next, there\u2019s one critical piece of advice you must not ignore if you want to ensure you don\u2019t lose all the data on your PC. And that\u2019s especially true for the 200-million PCs Microsoft is blocking from updating.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re still running Windows 10 on your PC, then one of thee things will happen this week. First, you may upgrade to Windows 11 if your PC is eligible. Second, you may enroll in the free ESU for Windows 10 security updates, if you haven\u2019t done so already. And third, you may risk it, and run a PC that\u2019s at risk after falling off support.<\/p>\n

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Whichever option you choose, the sage advice is to make an external backup of all the data on your PC this week. If you\u2019re upgrading your software or your PC itself, then there\u2019s always data loss risk and so a backup is good. If you\u2019re venturing into the unknown of an ESU or an at-risk PC, then the need to backup is just as great.<\/p>\n

You can create a full backup<\/a> of your entire PC to restore after a failure. That\u2019s the advice from Windows Central<\/a>. But if you don\u2019t have the time or the disk space, at least backup your files and ensure your key platforms, apps and services sync to the cloud.<\/p>\n

Consumer advocacy groups claim at least 200 million PCs can\u2019t upgrade to Windows 11. And while Microsoft does offer the 12-month ESU, the company\u2019s primary advice is to recycle<\/a> your old PC and upgrade to something newer \u2014 ideally with Copilot onboard.<\/p>\n

If you go that route, you not only need a backup but you also need to use Windows 10\u2019s own disk erase option<\/a> to be assured that none of your datas is given away with the hardware. It\u2019s the same advice for when you give away or resell a smartphone.<\/p>\n

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When it comes to how many Windows 10 PCs are blocked from the update to Windows 11, given Microsoft\u2019s strict hardware requirements, the 200 million estimate is widely used. But we don\u2019t know the actual number<\/a> or how many have enrolled in the ESU. <\/p>\n

Cyber risks have featured heavily in Microsoft\u2019s plentiful warnings leading up to October 14, and they\u2019re very real. As such, you need to take this seriously. If hundreds of millions of PCs really do fall off support next week, it will be a red-letter day for hackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do not take risks with your data. SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images Microsoft is killing Windows 10. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[19026,74,26127,117430,18043,18047,124483,124484],"class_list":["post-221104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-microsoft-warning","tag-technology","tag-windows-10-end-life","tag-windows-10-security","tag-windows-10-vs-windows-11","tag-windows-10-warning","tag-windows-10-workaround","tag-windows-free-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}