Most Windows 10 PCs will no longer receive new security updates in October 2025in less than a year today. For businesses and schools, the company offers up to three years of extended security updateswith prices that increase steadily year after year to encourage the switch to Windows 11.

But Microsoft announced today that end users would only be able to purchase a single year of extended security updates for their Windows 10 PCs at a price of $30 per PC. The company confirmed to us that the second and third years of security updates will be exclusive to businesses and schools.

Microsoft says consumers will be able to enroll in Windows 10’s Extended Security Update (ESU) program “as support approaches in 2025.”

For users with older but functional PCs that they’re not yet ready to part with, $30 is certainly less than it would cost to buy a new computer, and that’s about half the $61 that Microsoft charges businesses for each of their PCs that they want to continue using Windows 10. But that means people who hope to keep Windows 10 on their home computer until 2028 will have to find something else.