Overview
- Microsoft ended Windows 10 support on October 14, and the November 11 Patch Tuesday will deliver fixes solely to enrolled PCs.
- Users report messages such as “Enrollment available soon,” “temporarily unavailable in your region,” and “Something went wrong,” with Microsoft attributing availability to a phased regional rollout and EU-specific changes.
- Some PCs are wrongly flagged as enterprise-managed or in unsupported regions, blocking consumer enrollment; reports advise installing the latest updates, removing old work or school accounts, and, in some cases, trying an in-place upgrade or Microsoft’s end-of-support portal link.
- Consumer enrollment offers one year of updates free by backing up settings to a Microsoft account, or access via a $30 purchase or 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points, while EEA users can get coverage free by signing in or pay to keep a local account.
- Roughly 40% of Windows installations still run Windows 10, leaving a large number of devices at risk of missing new patches if enrollment is not completed in time.