Here’s How You Can Get Windows 11 For Free—If You Act Now – Forbes
How to get Windows 11 totally free of chargeWindows 10 is living on borrowed time, and that’s bad news for the hundreds of millions of users who still rely on it as their operating system of choice. As the deadline for the withdrawal of security support for Windows 10 draws ever closer, I can assure you that criminal hackers are taking notice. With new account bypass vulnerabilities and password-stealing campaigns ramping up, there is precious little time left to make the sensible security choice and upgrade to Windows 11. That decision has just become a lot easier as it is now possible to get Windows 11 for free, but only if you act now.Here’s precisely how you can do it and join the surge in Windows 10 users making the change.Microsoft has already made it clear that come Oct. 14, support for Windows 10 will end and it “will no longer provide free software updates from Windows Update, technical assistance, or security fixes for Windows 10.” OK, so you might argue that your computer will continue to work just fine and dandy, thank you, but that would be to miss the more significant issue: your data will no longer be priced against the myriad security threats that will continue to evolve and grow once this security updates have died.Microsoft, of course, recommends moving to Windows 11 as it is “designed to meet current demands for heightened security.” For once, I agree with Microsoft; Windows 11 is the much safer choice; it always has been, truth be told, but with the end of security support fast approaching, it’s now a complete no-brainer.The issue that is stopping many of the millions yet to make that move is, no doubt, money. But unless millions of Windows 10 users opt to upgrade to Windows 11 or pay for extended security support, they could be facing an unprotected future. Unless, that is, they take the free upgrade offer that Microsoft has extended to applicable users of the older operating system.I have previously reported how a worrying trend had emerged across the last couple of months with Windows 11 actually losing market share to Windows 10 rather than gaining it at this critical time. Thankfully, in light of the free upgrade offer, I suspect, that trend appears to be slowly reversing. The latest statistics show a 2.5% move from Windows 10 to Windows 11 in January. You can make that number even more impressive by upgrading yourself, for free, and here’s how to do it.Check to see if your Windows 10 device is eligible for the free Windows 11 operating system upgrade by going to Settings|Windows Update and then selecting the check for updates option. “If your device is ready for the update,” Microsoft said, “you’ll see the option to download and install Windows 11, version 24H2.” And that, my friends, really is how easy the free upgrade is to get. So, what are you waiting for?One Community. Many Voices. Create a free account to share your thoughts. Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations. We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space.In order to do so, please follow the posting rules in our site’s Terms of Service. We’ve summarized some of those key rules below. Simply put, keep it civil.Your post will be rejected if we notice that it seems to contain:User accounts will be blocked if we notice or believe that users are engaged in:So, how can you be a power user?Thanks for reading our community guidelines. Please read the full list of posting rules found in our site’s Terms of Service.
