Cybersecurity firm ESET is urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 or Linux to avoid a “security fiasco” as the 10-year-old operating system nears the end of support in October 2025.
“It’s five minutes to twelve to avoid a security fiasco for 2025,” explains ESET security expert Thorsten Urbanski.
Not the other user but I support a whole load of apps that run everything you can think of: printers, x-ray machines, radio frequency modelling, surveying equipment, forensic software/hardware, etc… it’s a lot. The Windows 10 upgrade hit us hard enough but this one has been on another level, now that Microsoft is also consistently a source of issues. Updates get forced through sometimes, Microsoft turns on random experimental features in our environment, and some shit just cannot reliably be blocked or controlled at all.
Windows was sometimes annoying or difficult, but now it is hostile. This is unacceptable.