At last count there were over 1 billion Windows 10 PCs safely running every day – including one in my home – making it one of the most popular computing platforms of all time. The success is in no small part due to the efforts at Microsoft to slam shut any exploitable openings in the Operating System (OS) that hackers, identity thieves and malware writers could take advantage of. Sadly, those efforts will end on October 14th when Microsoft stops updating the venerable OS for free, leaving hundreds of millions of computers vulnerable to attack.
Clearly an undisguised method of coaxing millions to move to Windows 11, this is nothing new to those with older Windows 7, Chromebook and Mac computers shut out of updates. The bottom line is that it doesn’t matter if you have a Windows 10 desktop, notebook or even a Microsoft Surface tablet, the prospect of new attacks being ignored can feel like a three alarm fire starting in your computer.
