{"id":954328,"date":"2025-08-12T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954328"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:50:35","slug":"microsoft-faces-lawsuit-over-windows-10-support-deadline-that-allegedly-leaves-users-at-heightened-risk-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/12\/microsoft-faces-lawsuit-over-windows-10-support-deadline-that-allegedly-leaves-users-at-heightened-risk-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft faces lawsuit over Windows 10 support deadline that allegedly leaves users at \u2018heightened risk of\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is facing a lawsuit in California as it plans to end free support for Windows 10. The software giant recently announced that it will officially end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. According to a Forbes report, Lawrence Klein, who owns two Windows 10 laptops, has filed a complaint against the 50-year-old tech giant warning that \u201cmany millions of users will not buy new devices or pay for extended support,\u201d leaving them \u201cat a heightened risk of a cyberattack or other data security incident.\u201d Klein reportedly owns two Windows 10 laptops that will become obsolete in eight weeks. He wants the court to order Microsoft to keep offering free support until the number of active Windows 10 devices falls \u201cbelow a reasonable threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is facing a lawsuit in California as it plans to end free support for Windows 10. The software giant recently announced that it will officially end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. According to a Forbes report, Lawrence Klein, who owns two Windows 10 laptops, has filed a complaint against the 50-year-old tech giant warning that \u201cmany millions of users will not buy new devices or pay for extended support,\u201d leaving them \u201cat a heightened risk of a cyberattack or other data security incident.\u201d Klein reportedly owns two Windows 10 laptops that will become obsolete in eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}