Microsoft officially stopped offering a free upgrade to Windows 10 in 2016, but the company never took any steps to stop the upgrades from working. In newly discovered pre-order listings on, the site shows a price of 109.99 for Windows 10 Home and 149.99 for Windows 10 Professional. This is an artifact of the years-old Windows 10 upgrade offer. Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 15-inch Touchscreen 256GB SSD 3.0GHz i7 with Windows 10 Pro (16GB RAM, Intel i7-1185G7, Wi-Fi, Latest Model) Matte Black, 5IF-00001 4.5 4. However, Microsoft also offers a free upgrade. Other retail sites will presumably keep selling physical and digital copies of Windows 10 for at least a little while, but even if all Windows 10 sales went away at the end of the month, people who really wanted it should still be able to get it.įor owners of older Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs who want to upgrade-and you should, since both operating systems received their final regularly scheduled security updates earlier this month-Windows 10 should continue to install and run just fine on those computers at no additional cost. The current retail price for a new Windows 10 Home license is 139, while a new Windows 10 Pro license costs 199. Although Windows 10 will continue to be supported with new security updates until at least October 2025, Microsoft is pushing anyone buying or building a new PC to use the newer Windows 11 instead. Microsoft will stop selling downloadable licenses for Windows 10 on its website on January 31, according to a message on the product pages for Windows 10 Home and Pro. Further Reading Microsoft will continue supporting Windows 10 with yearly feature updates
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