Microsoft’s Free Offer Deadline—Millions Of Windows Users Suddenly Upgrade

Microsoft has a major problem on its hands, as a fast-approaching deadline for 850 million Windows users to update their PCs looks like becoming an inevitable security nightmare. Those users have been inundated with a combination of warnings and feature promises, but also an implied threat of unexpected costs. And maybe that’s why some 40 million hold-outs have suddenly upgraded their PCs in the last 31 days.

We’re talking Windows 11, and the Windows 10 die-hards still stubbornly refusing to make the switch. After a steady transition to the newer version of Windows through 2024, Windows 10 reversed that trend in the last two months of the year. Not good news for Microsoft, but also for those users facing…