Microsoft ended free support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025. The machines still switch on, but they stop getting security updates unless you pay for Extended Security Updates. That has put a lot of Florida businesses in the same position: a pile of working computers that are suddenly a compliance problem.
If the machine meets the requirements — TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, a supported processor — the upgrade is free and the machine carries on.
Microsoft's ESU programme delivers critical and important security updates for up to three years beyond end of support. No new features, no performance improvements.
Machines that can't meet the Windows 11 requirements are at the end of their useful life as business computers, regardless of whether they still boot.
A machine with no network access and no company data can carry on doing something isolated.
This is the bit most businesses miss. A 2019–2021 business laptop that can't take Windows 11 is still a perfectly good machine to somebody who isn't bound by your security policy, and it has real resale value today. In two years, sitting in a store cupboard, it won't.
Scale matters here. Thirty identical machines are worth considerably more per unit than thirty assorted ones, because they can be tested, imaged and sold as a batch. A fleet refresh is the ideal time to sell — they're uniform, they all still work, and they're all leaving at once.
Practical sequence: image and deploy the new machines, confirm everything is migrated, then release the old fleet from Active Directory and your device management platform, then have them collected. Collecting machines back from staff is its own problem if people are remote.
They keep working. Microsoft stopped providing free security updates, bug fixes and technical support on 14 October 2025, so the machines become progressively more exposed to new vulnerabilities. Businesses have three realistic paths: upgrade eligible machines to Windows 11, pay for Extended Security Updates as a bridge, or retire the machines that cannot meet the Windows 11 hardware requirements.
It makes sense as a bridge rather than a destination. ESU provides critical and important security updates for up to three years past end of support, with no new features, and it is licensed per machine per year with the price rising in later years. It suits machines tied to software that will not run on Windows 11, or a fleet too large to replace in one budget cycle. For machines that simply cannot run Windows 11 and have no special software dependency, replacing them is usually cheaper over the same period.
Often yes, particularly machines from roughly 2019 onward with 16GB of memory and an SSD, and especially in quantity. A fleet refresh is the best moment to sell because the machines are uniform, still working and all leaving at once, which is what pushes the per-unit price up. Value falls steadily the longer they sit in a cupboard after replacement.
Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and a processor on Microsoft's supported list. A large number of machines sold before roughly 2018 fail at least one of those, and the processor requirement in particular cannot be worked around on business hardware. Those machines are the natural candidates for retirement.
Yes, and it is the easiest kind of job to price. Send a list of models and quantities before the refresh, we schedule collection around your deployment, and you get one offer and one certificate covering every machine by serial number. Free pickup across South Florida, and we travel statewide for larger fleets.
Send the model list and quantities. One offer, one certificate, collection scheduled around your rollout.