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Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by The_President »

rasz wrote: post #25
wvbdmp wrote: post #12

I keep telling people they’re not going to get owned just by booting a Windows 10 machine after october 14. Most people visit Google, Amazon, Youtube, Pinterest and Netflix and not much else. If you run sketchy stuff and click sketchy links, you could get owned under support, too. And if the NSA wants to spy on you specifically, Windows 11 isn’t going to stop them. The most pressing (non-compliance) reason to upgrade…

You are losing against Microsoft marketing. In Europe one of the biggest electronic chains MediaMarkt (think bestbuy in its heyday) is currently running commercials targeting older audience and clearly co-financed by Microsoft. Its all about dangers of doing basic ecommerce on "old unsupported computers" and how you are going to have all of your data and identity stolen if you dont upgrade _right now_ to a new comput…

Funny how I just cleaned out a Windows 11 computer infested with malware that was used by a professional and infiltrated with an unknown vector. We think it was compromised via an ad.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by mapotofu »

wvbdmp wrote: post #12

I keep telling people they’re not going to get owned just by booting a Windows 10 machine after october 14. Most people visit Google, Amazon, Youtube, Pinterest and Netflix and not much else. If you run sketchy stuff and click sketchy links, you could get owned under support, too. And if the NSA wants to spy on you specifically, Windows 11 isn’t going to stop them. The most pressing (non-compliance) reason to upgrade…

There are tons of sketchy ads on FB, Google, YT, etc., these aren’t safe/vetted sites, they’re crawling with scams.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#33

Post by janwl »

The_President wrote: post #31
rasz wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are losing against Microsoft marketing. In Europe one of the biggest electronic chains MediaMarkt (think bestbuy in its heyday) is currently running commercials targeting older audience and clearly co-financed by Microsoft. Its all about dangers of doing basic ecommerce on "old unsupported computers" and how you are going to have all of your data and identity stolen if you dont upgrade _right now_ to a new comput…

Funny how I just cleaned out a Windows 11 computer infested with malware that was used by a professional and infiltrated with an unknown vector. We think it was compromised via an ad.

A professional who didn’t use an ad blocker?

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#36

Post by tracker1 »

janwl wrote: post #33
The_President wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny how I just cleaned out a Windows 11 computer infested with malware that was used by a professional and infiltrated with an unknown vector. We think it was compromised via an ad.

A professional who didn’t use an ad blocker?

A friend of mine's wife works in marketing and literally needs to run without an Ad Blocker for work. When I setup PiHole for them, had to manually set the DNS on her work computer to not block ads.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by tracker1 »

1718627440 wrote: post #17
beardyw wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believed that. My conversion Windows 7 to 10 failed. I went to Ubuntu without any problems. I had a lucky escape.

Just yesterday I installed both Windows 10 and Windows 7 (and Windows XP). Windows7 is so much more consistent, faster. (It's still from Microsoft, so it also sucks.)

I think the two versions of Windows I remember most fondly are Windows 2000 *not ME) and Windows 7. I used a replacement shell for explorer on Win2k for several years until I finally switched to XP+SP3...

I think Win2K was the last consistent UI version of Windows... everything felt like it belonged together in terms of look and feel. With Win7, I liked the enhancements to the new taskbar, but other than that didn't care for much. Since then it's been an increasingly half baked mess.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

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Post by tracker1 »

zigzag312 wrote: post #5
hu3 wrote: post #2

Initial release date: July 29, 2015 That's over 10 years of support. Not bad

That's just the best case scenario. Few migrated to it in 2015. Windows 10 was sold for years. Windows 11 initial release date: October 5, 2021. That's 4 years of support after successor was released.

Dunno.. Windows 8.0 and 8.1 were ass... Windows 10 was slightly less ass.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#39

Post by deaf_coder »

general1465 wrote: post #18

I think that a lot of hardware which "does not support" Windows 11 actually does after BIOS/UEFI update or reconfiguration. I myself had 2 such examples from like 20 computers in the company. - A board with AMD Ryzen needed to fTPM enabled - A different board from Gigabyte I think had wonky Secure Boot support, but after BIOS update everything worked just alright and Windows 11 has installed itself without a problem.

It might be a little sketchy for some, but you can patch the .iso to remove the TPM requirement and get Windows 11 to install on non-compliant computers. I forgot where to download the patch from, it was from some GitHub page I found on the internet. I have done it so on my ancient desktop with Intel i5-3750K without issues.
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