Home users can only get a one-year stay of execution for Windows 10, but IT administrators and other institutions with fleets of Windows 10 PCs can also pay for up to three years of ESUs, which is also roughly the amount of time users can expect new Microsoft Defender antivirus updates and updates for core apps like Microsoft Edge.

As lousy timing would have it, Microsoft's handy media creation tool to facilitate clean installations to Windows 11 is having issues on Windows 10 PCs.