Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates will now continue for at least another year until October 2027. Windows 10 support has ended in 2025 but Microsoft offered the ESU until October 2026 so Windows users can prepare the migration to Windows 11. Now Microsoft is offering security updates through ESU until 2027 instead.

This was a pleasant surprise from Microsoft as I was planning to retire my 2019 computer (with i7-9700k, RTX 2080S). Which says it can't install Windows 11. At least not the "traditional" way of updating it to Windows 11. Then there's also the living room ASUS ROG desktop that doesn't restart properly installed with Windows 11 on it. The 2027 extended support will definitely give me more time to save and decide what to do until next year.

Microsoft states the prerequisites on their Windows 10 ESU webpage namely which Windows 10 versions are covered; the other prerequisites sums up to having a Microsoft account lets you enroll into the ESU for free, otherwise there's a $30 USD fee to enroll a local computer (no Microsoft account).