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Microsoft stops selling Windows 10 consumer licenses and says goodbye to Office Insider

When only a few days ago support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 for business was definitively shelved, Microsoft is preparing to say goodbye to another of its most successful operating systems: Windows 10. The company has added a Note to your Windows 10 download pagesadvising consumers that there will be no more consumer licenses for this operating system from next .

In addition, in this notice they also remember that Windows 10 will continue to have support, through security updates, which help protect the system from attacks, until October 14, 2025. Therefore, Microsoft seems willing that all your users start the transition to Windows 11 right now.

On the other hand, the company has also decided shelve your Office Insider program, which he used to get feedback from users in charge of testing changes and new features in the suite. But it does not set aside this initiative, since what it has done has been to launch the Microsoft 365 Insider program instead. Technically, therefore, it is a name change and an expansion of options and functions.

Microsoft has confirmed the changes, and ensures that it will offer more details about the products and services that this new program will include soon. Apparently, the news and changes to deploy the entire program will take place until the end of next March. Meanwhile, the Office Insider name has since disappeared from all items and tools that used it.

Everybody those who were already participating in the Office Insider program They won’t have to do anything else to participate in Microsoft 365. They will be transferred to it automatically. Meanwhile, little by little the Microsoft products that will become part of it will become known, in addition to those included in the Office suite, which already participated in the previous one.

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