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Rael Hornby

It's the "End of 10," but that doesn't mean you have to install Windows 11

A laptop screen showing the Windows 11 logo in full color while a laptop screen in the background shows a black-and-white Windows 10 logo.

In news unlikely to surprise anybody, Windows 10 is rapidly approaching its October 14 expiration date. That doesn't mean you'll be waking up on October 15 to a computer that no longer functions, but it does mean you'll miss out on Microsoft's technical support, feature updates, and security patches.

You can probably make do with the former, but the latter will leave you, your data, your hardware, and your system integrity completely exposed to every ne'er-do-well netizen with a willingness to exploit legacy machines (of which, there are a lot).

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