Microsoft 365 apps feature updates to end for Windows 10 as upgrade to Windows 11 required
Microsoft will stop introducing new features to Microsoft 365 Copilot apps (formerly Microsoft 365 and Office 365... yeah, confusing, I know) for Windows 10 users beginning in August 2026, affecting apps like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft OneNote and more. This change impacts Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, Current Channel business users, and enterprise customers, who will stop receiving new features on varying timelines. Specifically, users on the Monthly Enterprise Channel lose feature updates after October 13, 2026, while Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel users are affected after January 12, 2027.
Although feature development will pause, Microsoft will continue providing security updates for Office apps on Windows 10 until October 10, 2028, giving users time to plan transitions securely. Windows 10 itself reaches its end-of-life on October 14, 2025, but Office app support will continue for several years. After feature updates end, only users upgrading to Windows 11 will receive the latest Microsoft 365 capabilities.
In a recent announcement, Microsoft introduced a way for consumers to extend Windows 10 security updates for one year at no charge—provided they enable Windows Backup through Microsoft OneDrive.
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- Windows 10 end of support and Microsoft 365 AppsMicrosoft Learn • Official source
- Microsoft will halt new Office features for Windows 10 in 2026The Verge
- Microsoft to Freeze Microsoft 365 Features on Windows 10 in 2026, Pushing Users to Windows 11 UpgradeWinBuzzer
- Microsoft 365 might’ve just given you a reason to finally leave Windows 10XDA
- Microsoft reveals when Windows 10 customers won't get Microsoft 365 Apps updates anymoregHacks
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I used to come to this site to find cool apps, still do, but lately I barely even get to browse around anymore because of the [what I thought it was a] blog. You always have something entertaining and useful to read. Kudos.
That said though, I can't fathom the notion of using Windows connected to the Internet, I've seen the firewall logs, I admin Active Directory and I know what's it's capable of, I've heard (and for a while way back suffered) the due to the built-in trojan infection that is Windows Update, but more importantly I witnessed how — if you unplug from the Internet — all issues go away; these include 3rd-party malware since you cut access to their C2s. Sidenote: I just realized that I inadvertently alluded to the concept of 1st-party malware. I mean, it's not new but I hadn't put a name to it before. Where was I?…
I can't understand how people are okay using Windows 10 which I only use on VMs, disconnected and with a sht ton of GPOs in Active Directory to act against its own many of its own less than savory tools. Let alone how is anybody willingly accepting those "free" upgrades to a signed system that tries even harder to act against the user, expose them, and is continuously stripped of those GPOs that people like me use to tame it, because somehow [moving those controls to] the cloud (meaning Microsoft's) is better. Btch! That's what I don't want you to reach in the first place!
Most of the privacy settings are only available in an already hard-to-get Enterprise SKU and only if connected to an AD domain, so does everybody spend a week setting up a computer or do they just don't care? If not, why? Personally I couldn't care less about what a company might learn about me, what infuriates me to a boiling blinding rage is that they're a business about that information, collected on the product you paid for, indirectly in most cases, but still. The worst part is that this makes news because Microsoft has to report it because of its enterprise sector ties.
Apple on the other hand, has been low-key doing this by artificially locking down App Store apps' compatibility and coercing devs to do the same, it even makes room for itself when it's time for the trojan to get its payload and puts the nuke button right in your face when you least expected flipping the regular {accept} and {cancel} wording to throw you off. It's ingeniously vile. You know Apple, it might not be the first, but it's certainly the best.