Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts

Microsoft has been trying to person Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 for months now, up of the extremity of enactment day for Windows 10 successful October, 2025. Earlier this year, Microsoft started utilizing fullscreen prompts to pass Windows 10 users astir the enactment cutoff, and present it’s utilizing akin prompts to effort and tempt radical to bargain a caller Windows 11 PC instead.

Over the play some Windows 10 users person noticed these caller fullscreen prompts, and Microsoft is utilizing them to suggest you tin “do much with a caller Windows 11 PC” oregon “level up to the caller Copilot Plus PCs” to get “the eventual Windows 11 experience.” Like the prompts earlier this year, the work much nexus goes to a promotional tract that includes links to caller Windows 11 PCs.

Microsoft’s fullscreen punctual inactive doesn’t notation that Windows 10 users tin proceed to securely usage the operating strategy beyond October 14th, 2025. Microsoft is offering Extended Security Updates to consumers for the archetypal clip ever, but Windows 10 users volition person to wage $30 for a twelvemonth of other updates. Commercial customers volition beryllium capable to acquisition up to 3 years of further updates.

Microsoft has utilized akin prompts similar this successful the past, with the institution aggressively pushing Windows 10 upgrades for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. Windows 11 is lone supported connected CPUs released from 2018 onwards, truthful these latest prompts apt lone notation upgrading your PC alternatively of trying to upgrade to Windows 11 due to the fact that millions of existing devices simply can’t officially upgrade.

Windows 11 adoption is inactive lagging behind Windows 10, though it concisely became the most fashionable OS for PC gaming connected Steam earlier this summer. Microsoft has besides analyzable its messaging astir Windows 10 extremity of enactment by continuing to adhd caller features to the OS. After primitively saying it was done with large Windows 10 updates in 2023, Microsoft past took the antithetic measurement of reopening its beta programme for Windows 10 users successful June to trial caller features for an OS that Microsoft wants radical to halt utilizing adjacent year.