Unless Microsoft hadn’t already made it very clear that it wants you to upgrade your Windows 10 PC this year, the company has announced it will stop supporting Office apps on the older OS come October.
In a blog post, Microsoft confirmed that to continue using the Microsoft 365 suite of apps on your machine, you will “need to upgrade to Windows 11” by October 14—the same day that support will also cease for Windows 10. And in many cases, upgrading to Windows 11 will require upgrading your machine too.
That’s because Windows 11 has some pretty hefty hardware requirements that millions of older machines can’t meet, and Microsoft has already confirmed it has no intention of budging those prerequisites.
It’s so confident in the move that Yusef Mehdi, Microsoft’s chief marketing officer declared 2025 the “year of the Windows 11 PC refresh.”
“Whether the current PC needs…
