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.
What is the active directory replacement for Linux?
Is my antivirus supported?
How about that program that Bill Jenkins coded 30 years ago That’s still integral to daily operations.
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I could probably upgrade a third of my company to Linux, but then I would have to support multiple operating systems and employees who could barely understand where the start menu was in Windows.
Client or server? Doesn’t matter, since samba provides both.
In the same sense that airplane seats have life jackets, yes.
Get better app maintenance and life-cycling and you’ll know already.
If it’s thirty years old and coded for windows 3.11, it probably won’t run on windows11. If it’s 30 years old and coded for sun4 or Linux 1.2.13, it can likely be ported.
Qemu.
Comically I did this at a job, porting an old app forward while my peer redeployed a 4-year-old perl web tool. My c;m;mi was done way before his perl dep hell caused him to just redo it all in c.
Recommending Samba is dangerous, it’ll work okay until it doesn’t. And when that happens you’re better off rebuilding the entire domain then trying to figure out why the PDC stopped trusting itself or some other bullshit.
Also they’re only up to 2016 functional level.
Unrealistic, especially for large and/or old companies that already typically have understaffed IT departments.
Investments like switching the entire OS vendor have to have a very, very good reason.