We’ve got already talked lots about Home windows 10 shedding help on October 14, 2025, with Microsoft encouraging prospects emigrate to Home windows 11 as quickly as potential. The corporate can be providing a yr of prolonged updates by way of each free and paid means for many who stubbornly wish to stay on Home windows 10. That stated, it is very important word that this isn’t the one working system reaching the top of life in three months.

Over on its Home windows Well being Launch dashboard, Microsoft has posted an advisory reminding prospects that, other than Home windows 10 model 22H2 within the Normal Availability Channel, Home windows 10 2015 LTSB is shedding help on October 14, 2025, too. For these unaware, LTSB is an abbreviation for Lengthy-Time period Servicing Department, however it’s now extra generally known as Lengthy-Time period Servicing Channel (LTSC).

The LTSB/LTSC department is meant for enterprise prospects preferring a steady model of their working system with minimal to no adjustments over time. Whereas it does get safety patches, new options will not be rolled out. It’s primarily meant for mission-critical industries like healthcare and manufacturing.

LTSC variations of Home windows usually obtain 10 years of help. The variant shedding help in October 2025 is Home windows 10 2015 LTSB. That is the launch model of Home windows 10 and makes use of model 1507 because the baseline, for many who bear in mind the historical past of the OS. After a launch in 2015, Microsoft ended mainstream help for model 1507 in 2017, however LTSB prospects obtained an additional eight years of help, that are ending in about three months.

Following October 14, 2025, solely the next LTSB/LTSC variations of Home windows 10 might be supported:

• Home windows 10 LTSB 2016 (model 1607)
• Home windows 10 LTSC 2019 (model 1809)
• Home windows 10 LTSC 2021 (model 21H2)

At this level, maybe organizations utilizing an LTSC model of Home windows 10 ought to take into account Home windows 11 LTSC. Presently, Home windows 11 solely has one LTSC launch, particularly 2024 (model 24H2), which can take pleasure in mainstream help till October 2029.