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31st Mar 2025

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Support for Windows 10 ending in October

We all know that support for Windows 10 is ending in October. But do you really know what that means?

HP recommends Windows 11 Pro for business

We talked to our partner HP about the implications of not upgrading, and why NOW is the time to transition, with an added incentive for SMB customers! Here’s what they told us.

Stay secure

Stay secure and avoid financial risks

M365 not supported

M365 will not be supported on Windows 10

Migration takes time

Migration to Windows 11 takes time

Get tangible benefits

Moving to Windows 11 brings tangible values

Time limited offer

For businesses up to 500 employees there is an irresistible limited time offer!

Let’s dive into these points a bit further:

Reason no. 1

Running on an unsupported operating system can lead to increased security risks and associated financial and reputational risks.

Increased risk and consequences¹ : Running on an unsupported operating system can subject your business to increased security risks, where breaches can lead to significant financial losses and damage to reputation.
Industrial standards and insurance clauses²: Cyber insurance policies may require businesses to maintain up-to-date operating systems. Failing to upgrade could result in denied claims or higher premiums. Migrating to Windows 11 ensures compliance with these policies, safeguarding your financial interests. We suggest you look at industrial standards and cyber insurance clauses to ensure you are compliant and to avoid surprises.

Read more on how to stay ahead of cybercrime in the Hiscox business blog:

Cybersecurity risks for small businesses

Reason no. 2

Microsoft 365 Apps and on-premises Office suites will no longer be supported on Windows 10 after Windows 10 reaches end of support.

After 14^th October 2025, while Microsoft 365 apps and on-premises Office suites will continue to function on a Windows 10 device, they will no longer be supported. Microsoft “strongly recommend upgrading to Windows 11 to avoid performance and reliability issues over time.” ³. This means:
- Microsoft will no longer provide phone/chat/email support for this configuration.
- Microsoft will no longer be creating updates or hotfixes for issues that emerge when running on unsupported operating systems, and
- New features or apps may not work on unsupported operating systems.
If you can’t replace Windows 10 devices before the end of support (EOS) date, Microsoft does offer the Extended Security Update (ESU) program. Your organisation will be able to purchase a yearly subscription to security updates. The yearly commitment is renewable for three years. Devices enrolled in ESUs will receive monthly critical and/or security updates to keep these Windows 10 PCs secure. ESUs do not include new features, customer-requested non-security updates, or design change requests. Technical support beyond the ESU itself is also not available. Purchase of Windows 10 ESU does not affect support for Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 10. This will remain an unsupported configuration even for customers with ESU⁴.

Reason no. 3

Migrating to Windows 11 takes time and it varies from businesses to businesses. Assess your readiness and start now to avoid missing the end of support deadline.

Stakeholders buy-in and due diligence takes time: While Windows 11 is built on the same engineering platform as Windows 10 and hence highly compatible, many IT teams are required to get stakeholders buy-in, build a deployment and run due diligence that could take significant time.
Examples of due diligence include running compatibility assessments, testing and pilots before broad rollout.
Businesses with Windows 11 ineligible devices will also need to consider device procurement and supply lead times.
boxxe offers a Windows 11 readiness assessment service, to guide you through this process.

Reason no. 4

Windows 11 offers great security, productivity and manageability benefits. Staying on Windows 10 means widening the digital gap as innovation continues to happen on the newer platform.

Value of Moving to Windows 11⁵

Improve the End User experience and security.
- Windows 11 offers advanced security features like hardware-based isolation, encryption, and malware protection. Alongside HP Wolf Security, this ensures compliance with the latest security standards and regulations – significantly reducing your risks.
- With AI embedded and improvements from UI enhancements like Snap Layouts to Microsoft Teams and other collaboration tools integration and boosts productivity.
Real world ROI and lower IT costs.
- Upgrading to Windows 11 can lead to cost savings through improved EUC efficiency and reduced security incidents particularly compared to maintaining outdated systems.

See the benefits to your organisation in cost savings and security:

Forrester’s Total Economic Impact

Modernise & enhance your End User Compute Systems:
- Automate deployments and updates (with Autopilot and Autopatch) and be ready for hot patching to speed updates and reduce reboots. (some features require Windows Enterprise)
- Move to cloud first management to improve response times, reduce workload on IT and improve efficiency.

Reason no. 5

HP is running an amazing limited time offer, allowing you to save your business up to £112,500!

Save up to £112,500 when you invest in new HP Technology for your business! This amazing offer is available for a limited time only!
- Valid on qualifying purchases invoiced before 30^th June 2025.
- Claim 10% cashback reward on your qualifying devices, accessories, displays and extended warranties (capped at 250 devices per business).
- Buy a qualifying AI device and receive an additional £50 cashback reward per device (capped at 250 devices per business).
- Claim £100 cashback when you buy a new qualifying device and trade an old one (capped at 100 devices per business).
- This offer is exclusive to SMBs in the UK (capped at 500 employees).

Start Upgrading to Windows 11 today

Don’t wait to benefit from the latest advances in business-ready AI, including Copilot+ PCs.

Estimate financial benefits with the Forrester Windows 11 Devices Calculator
Learn how you can check if your PCs meet Windows 11 system requirements
Create a deployment roadmap and prepare for Windows 11
mApp assure program to help you resolve issues free of charge
Prepare your pilot deployment

More resources

IDC Executive Brief: The Refresh Imperative: The Value of Deploying New, More Secure, Generative AI Centric PCs Ahead of the Windows 10 End of Service

Forrester Study: Total Economic Impact™ of Windows 11 Pro Devices Windows 11 Pro for business

Plan for Windows 10 EOS with Windows 11, Windows 365, and ESU

See how other customers experienced a smooth upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 Pro

With boxxe’s deep Microsoft expertise, partnerships with leading vendors like HP, and professional and managed services, boxxe is your ideal partner for the journey to Windows 11.

¹^{Windows 10 End of Support for Business Employees}²^{Critical Cyber Insurance Policy Cla. uses: Don't Let These Cyber Risks Slip Through! – Troinet}³^{What Windows end of support means for Office and Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Support}⁴^{Plan for Windows 10 EOS with Windows 11, Windows 365, and ESU}⁵^{Windows 11 Pro for business: Boost productivity with Copilot | Microsoft}

What we use your personal data for	Our reasons
Creating and managing your account with us	To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
Providing products and/or services to you	To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
Conducting checks to identify you and verify your identity or to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
Enforcing legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings	Depending on the circumstances: — to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations — in other cases, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect our business, interests and rights
Customising our website and its content to your particular preferences based on a record of your selected preferences or on your use of our website	Depending on the circumstances: — your consent as gathered e.g., by the separate cookies tool on our website—see ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below — where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent, you may withdraw it at any time by changing the setting on the cookies tool (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn)
Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our website is working as intended	Depending on the circumstances: — your consent as gathered by the separate cookies tool on our website]—see ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below — where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by clearing your cookie settings and rejecting when you revisit our website (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn)
Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products AND/OR services or other important notices	Depending on the circumstances: — to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations — in other cases, for our legitimate interests, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price
Protecting the security of systems and data used to provide the services	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests, i.e., to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us
Statistical analysis to help us understand our customer base	For our legitimate interests, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price
Updating and enhancing customer records	Depending on the circumstances: — to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract — to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations — where neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests, e.g., making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products
Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g. to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where relevant	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
Marketing our services to existing and former customers	For our legitimate interests, i.e., to promote our business to existing and former customers. See Marketing below for further information
The audit of our ISO certifications (to the extent not covered by ‘activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations’ above)	For our legitimate interests, i.e., to maintain our accreditations so we can demonstrate we operate at the highest standards
To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties that will or may take control or ownership of some or all of our business (and professional advisors acting on our or their behalf) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency. In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary	Depending on the circumstances: — to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations — in other cases, for our legitimate interests, i.e., to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets

Recipient	Processing operation (use) by recipient	Relevant categories of personal data transferred to recipient
Google	We use Google Analytics (GA4) cookies to collect data about the visitors to the site which includes the number of visitors, session duration, pages visited during the session etc. and whether visitors return. Google Analytics will assign a unique “ID” to a user of the boxxe website at the point they register an account with us for the purpose of tracking their activity on the boxxe website. This information is anonymous and cannot be used to identify you personally unless you end up becoming a boxxe customer. Google Analytics cannot use the ID to work out who you are.	Device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form) geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Google Analytics stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile.
Hotjar Ltd	We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.	This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile.
Dotdigital	Dotdigital is a SaaS cross-channel marketing automation platform and services provider that helps brands devise successful, personalized marketing campaigns across multiple channels (e.g. email). Paired with its Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM integration, boxxe is able to deliver tailored marketing to its customers.	Contact data (such as email address, contact number, name or other contact details), marketing preferences, IP address and usage information (including online navigation data, location data and browser data).
Darktrace	Darktrace’s Security Platform enhances boxxe’s cybersecurity position by providing endpoint protection, cloud security, and email security. Darktrace uses AI-driven tools to detect and respond to potential threats, such as malware, phishing attacks, and insider threats, by continuously monitoring network traffic, user behaviour, and cloud-based resources. It aims to prevent data breaches and minimize cyber risks by identifying and mitigating security threats in real-time.	Contact data (name, email address, user name), devide identifiers (e.g. IP address) and/or mobile identifiers, location data to nearest city, usage information (including tracking or browsing behavior).
Greenhouse	Greenhouse ATS is a cloud-based software that helps companies manage their recruitment processes. It organizes and tracks job applications, resumes, and candidate information. Greenhouse ATS collects applications and stores data about the applicants, such as which source they came from, which role they applied to and where they are in the application process. Greenhouse ATS features applicant tracking, background screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding.	Contact details (name, email address, home address, telephone number) and any special accommodations needed if successful for interview and employment.

Recipient country	Recipient	Processing operation (use) by recipient	Lawful safeguard
Ireland	Hotjar	Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile.	Adequacy regulation further to paragraph 5(1)(a) of Part 3 of Schedule 21 to the Data Protection Act 2018 https://www.hotjar.com/legal/support/dpa/
USA	Stripe Inc	In order to facilitate online payments through boxxe’s ecommerce portal, where applicable, Stripe may Process Payment Account Details, bank account details, billing/shipping address, name, date/time/amount of transaction, device ID, email address, IP address/location, order ID, payment card details, tax ID/status, unique customer identifier, identity information including government issued documents (e.g., national IDs, driver’s licenses and passports).	UK Data Transfer Addendum https://stripe.com/gb/legal/dpa
EEA	Dotdigital	Boxxe will provide certain information about its customers to Dotdigital in order for it to be able to provide automated marketing services that are tailored to its specific customer interests.	Adequacy regulation further to paragraph 5(1)(a) of Part 3 of Schedule 21 to the Data Protection Act 2018. https://dotdigital.com/terms/data-processing-agreement/
Ireland/EEA/USA	Greenhouse	Data will primarily be stored at rest in Greenhouse’s Silos - EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt) and EU-West-1 (Ireland) for disaster recovery. Data will only be transferred to and from Greenhouse servers in the EU and the US for essential business activities, including technical support, sub-processor services, and others as outlined in the Greenhouse DPA (data processing agreement).	Legal – Data processing addendum \| Greenhouse

Access to a copy of your personal data	The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data
Correction (also known as rectification)	The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data
Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten)	The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations
Restriction of use	The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data
Data portability	The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations
To object to use	The right to object: at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, e.g. where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims
Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement	The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our website
The right to withdraw consents	If you have provided us with a consent to use your personal data you have a right to withdraw that consent easily at any time You may withdraw consents by emailing ecommerce@boxxe.com. Withdrawing a consent will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn

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Why businesses should move to Windows 11 now

Support for Windows 10 ending in October

Stay secure

M365 not supported

Migration takes time

Get tangible benefits

Time limited offer

Running on an unsupported operating system can lead to increased security risks and associated financial and reputational risks.

Microsoft 365 Apps and on-premises Office suites will no longer be supported on Windows 10 after Windows 10 reaches end of support.

Migrating to Windows 11 takes time and it varies from businesses to businesses. Assess your readiness and start now to avoid missing the end of support deadline.

Windows 11 offers great security, productivity and manageability benefits. Staying on Windows 10 means widening the digital gap as innovation continues to happen on the newer platform.

HP is running an amazing limited time offer, allowing you to save your business up to £112,500!

Start Upgrading to Windows 11 today

More resources

Explore our bestselling computers

Explore our bestselling accessories

Latest Case Studies

boxxe x IBM - Accelerating Cybersecurity with AI

DeMontfort Fine Art - Where Culture meets Cybersecurity

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Data Migration

Helpful Insights

Already a customer?

Already a customer?

Why businesses should move to Windows 11 now

Support for Windows 10 ending in October

Stay secure

M365 not supported

Migration takes time

Get tangible benefits

Time limited offer

Running on an unsupported operating system can lead to increased security risks and associated financial and reputational risks.

Microsoft 365 Apps and on-premises Office suites will no longer be supported on Windows 10 after Windows 10 reaches end of support.

Migrating to Windows 11 takes time and it varies from businesses to businesses. Assess your readiness and start now to avoid missing the end of support deadline.

Windows 11 offers great security, productivity and manageability benefits. Staying on Windows 10 means widening the digital gap as innovation continues to happen on the newer platform.

HP is running an amazing limited time offer, allowing you to save your business up to £112,500!

Start Upgrading to Windows 11 today

More resources

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