The scythe is poised before Windows 10 as the operating system is about to have its support chopped. Well, maybe not completely, as you'll be able to receive Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for a year if you pay $30, or even for free if you live in the European Economic Area (EEA). But those are just security updates; there will be no more feature updates for the OS and further support from developers for their apps will also slowly phase out, too. So, Windows 10 is effectively dunzo.
And that fact has made me a little sadder than I thought it might. Not very sad—it's just an operating system—but a little. I was pondering why that is, because I tend to do just fine with Windows 11 and have used it pretty much since release. I think it's because of what it represents. It is, as you can see from my beautifully crafted headline above, the sound of the doors closing on the last time I felt my PC was truly my own.
