The clock runs for Windows 10. On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will officially bow out, ending technical support and safety updates for its star operating system. If a paid extension will exist for the most recalcitrant, the industry is already preparing the rest. An essential actor of the web with his Chrome browser, Google does not intend to be caught.
In an approach that is surprising, it was discovered that Chrome discreetly started to assess the configuration of your PC. At each start -up, the browser performs a small “health assessment” to determine if your machine has strong enough shoulders for Windows 11. The list of criteria is precise and directly modeled on the requirements of Microsoft: the presence of a compatible processor, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of disk space, and the famous safety modules that are the secure boot (UEFI) and TPM 2.0.
Don’t panic, but a clear message
That users reassure themselves, it is not a question for the moment neither of blocking you, nor even of displaying any notification to you. Your browser will continue to operate, whether your PC is a young first or a veteran of the Windows 10 era. So why this indiscretion?
By collecting this data anonymously, a simple “yes” or “no” sent in its use statistics, Google seeks to map its own future. The challenge is to know precisely how many of its users will remain on the tile, blocked on an operating system that Microsoft will soon consider as obsolete.
This information is crucial for the research giant. Maintain a browser as complex as Google Chrome, with its constant safety updates, on an aging operating system has a significant cost. By quantifying the share of ineligible PCs, Google will be able to decide, knowingly, how long it will continue to offer a complete support for Chrome on Windows 10. The results of this large survey will dictate the Chrome end -of -life calendar for millions of people.
A future fragmented in perspective
This Google initiative highlights an inevitable reality: the end of Windows 10 promises to be more complex than that of its predecessors. Windows 11 strict material prerequisites have created a fracture in the world computer park. If the data of June 2025 show that Windows 11 has finally exceeded its elder in market share worldwide, very many machines, especially in business and in households with tighter budgets, will never be compatible.
The count has started, and each chrome user on Windows 10 is now, without his knowledge, part of the census. A census that will seal the fate of cohabitation between the most used browser in the world and an operating system which, although aging, is still far from having said its last word. One can also imagine that Google will try to take advantage of the situation to promote its Chromebook and Chromeos Flex.
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