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Are you the designated PC expert for your family and friends? The next time you get a call asking for help with a Windows PC, check to see which version it's running. If the System > About page says Windows 10, then they really need your help.

On Oct. 14, 2025, Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 10, cutting off security updates for retail customers. Anyone who has ignored Microsoft's increasingly strident warnings and is still running Windows 10 is already several months behind, having missed the important monthly security updates starting in November 2025. And by Microsoft's own accounting, there are hundreds of millions of PCs still running Windows 10.