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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

#11

Post by kungito »

netdevphoenix wrote: post #6

Any bets on Windows extending the deadline or providing free security updates for a while as soon as the first sec vulnerability news hits a significant number of customers?

But they litterally are doing this. And also EU made them make it free for EU citizens so its free in EU and 30$ in the rest of the world afaik. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-up...

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#12

Post by wvbdmp »

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 from Windows 10 is always just going to be that newer software versions may stop working. Perhaps most importantly games and Microsoft’s own stuff.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#13

Post by sunaookami »

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 need an up2date browser with adblocker, that's the most important thing. I guess browsers will be supported for a few more years but after that you should definitely not use Windows 10 in fear of e.g. 0days served via ads and just use a Linux distribution instead (or better yet, do it now instead of buying new hardware just for Win11 or using crude hacks and unsupported workarounds).

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#14

Post by sunaookami »

kungito wrote: post #11
netdevphoenix wrote: post #6

Any bets on Windows extending the deadline or providing free security updates for a while as soon as the first sec vulnerability news hits a significant number of customers?

But they litterally are doing this. And also EU made them make it free for EU citizens so its free in EU and 30$ in the rest of the world afaik. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-up...

Yes, it's free for one year if you sign into an MS account.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#15

Post by 2III7 »

cwillu wrote: post #3
hu3 wrote: post #2

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

“Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.” --Microsoft

I also believed them. Never again. Also Windows 11 is okay.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#16

Post by rocketvole »

2III7 wrote: post #15
cwillu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.” --Microsoft

I also believed them. Never again. Also Windows 11 is okay.

... but it seems to be worse than windows 10 in terms of performance while adding nothing substantially different

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#17

Post by 1718627440 »

beardyw wrote: post #4
cwillu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.” --Microsoft

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.)

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#18

Post by general1465 »

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.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#19

Post by micronn »

sunaookami wrote: post #14
kungito wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they litterally are doing this. And also EU made them make it free for EU citizens so its free in EU and 30$ in the rest of the world afaik. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-up...

Yes, it's free for one year if you sign into an MS account.

Which makes it not free.

Re: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025

#20

Post by munchlax »

rocketvole wrote: post #16
2III7 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also believed them. Never again. Also Windows 11 is okay.

... but it seems to be worse than windows 10 in terms of performance while adding nothing substantially different

Oh but it is quite different.

Even notepad is completely fucked up.

mmc and cmd still virtually unchanged since 1999

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