- The Windows 10 extended support offer is currently being implemented
- However, a few people do not see it, including myself
- Microsoft has said that the deployment is happening ‘slowly’ but that it will be available for everyone before the end of life of Windows 10 in October 2025
If you are running Windows 10 and hopes to obtain extended support for the operating system to avoid having to update Windows 11 in October 2025, you may wonder exactly where the supply of that support is.
While it is officially implemented, from a month ago, Windows reports that the extended security updates scheme (ESU) has not yet reached many people.
The inscription wizard that allows you to register for the scheme, which can be done for free, as you will have seen, should appear in the Windows update panel. However, good people, including the last Windows readers, are simply not watching this button at all, so they cannot register.
The technology site contacted Microsoft about this and the company told him that the registration assistant is currently being implemented, as officially announced recently, it is only that this is happening “slowly.”
There is nothing you can do to request that the button appear in Windows Update; You just have to wait.
ANALYSIS: A seemingly cautious deployment
I am still running Windows 10, and I am planning to take the extended support offer (for reasons that I have recently discussed), but I have not seen it on my PC. There are dispersed reports in several online forums of people who wonder where the offer is, so it seems that the deployment is on the cautious and slow side, as Microsoft indicates.
The good news is that Microsoft has assured Windows later that the registration assistant will reach all Windows 10 PC before the end of the life of the previous operating system, which is in mid -October 2025. Therefore, it is only a case of being a patient, although I personally prefer not to let it register for the program until the last minute.
With luck, Microsoft will kick ESU in a higher march with the next great update for Windows 10, which arrives on September 9, 2025. We will see, and perhaps iron errors in the magician has been part of the problem here: there was a remarkable problem through which the registration process was failing for some people, a problem that Microsoft solved the previous week.
Meanwhile, as it stands out in Windows elsewhere, Microsoft is intensifying its full -screen NAG that are shown to Windows 10 users, urging them to update Windows 11, from the most recent August update. These are emerging windows that have been seen before, and they are likely to shoot again next month and when October arrives, when the support is cut for those who have not registered in the ESU.
I will take advantage of the free option for extended updates, which requires synchronizing the configuration of PC to OneDrive, since this is something I already do anyway. For those who prefer not to.
A third route is to collect 1,000 Microsoft rewards points, provided that it has accumulated many.
