Microsoft Pushes Windows 10 Users to Upgrade with Full-Screen Ads

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Microsoft Pushes Windows 10 Users to Upgrade with Full-Screen Ads
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Microsoft is intensifying its campaign to encourage Windows 10 users to switch to Windows 11, employing full-screen advertisements on the aging operating system. These ads highlight the impending end of Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, and promote the purchase of new Windows 11 PCs.

Microsoft is encouraging Windows 10 users to move to Windows 11 with more full-screen ads in the doomed operating system that urge users to buy a new Windows 11 PC.

There is now less than a year before support ends for Windows 10 – Microsoft makes it clear that the plug will be pulled on the venerable operating system on October 14, 2025, in its advertisements. However, Windows 11 still hasbefore surpassing its predecessor's market share. There are many reasons for this, the main one being Microsoft's intransigence around the hardware requirements for Windows 11.

Getting a Copilot+ PC is an expensive option, and regardless of Microsoft's unwanted ads filling their screens, customers will not be keen to drop cash on new hardware that lacks a killer app for its AI addons. Particularly when their current device works perfectly well if it was not for a seemingly arbitrary decision by Microsoft to render it obsolete in 2025.

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