{"id":49681,"date":"2025-10-17T15:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49681"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:36:17","slug":"end-of-support-for-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/17\/end-of-support-for-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Support for Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fighttorepair.substack.com\/p\/the-windows-10-zombie-apocalypse\">Fight to Repair<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/fighttorepair.substack.com\/p\/the-windows-10-zombie-apocalypse\"><p>A coalition of businesses, nonprofits, and elected officials (including Fight To Repair&rsquo;s parent organization, the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure-resilient.org\">Secure Resilient Future Foundation<\/a>) has formally petitioned Microsoft to extend Windows 10 support, which is currently slated to end on October 14th. <\/p><p>With more than a billion Windows 10 devices operating globally, it is estimated that hundreds of millions fail to meet the minimum hardware requirements needed to upgrade to Windows 11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottrlarson.com\/publications\/publication-windows-move-towards-surveillance\/\">Scott Larson<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45600338\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.scottrlarson.com\/publications\/publication-windows-move-towards-surveillance\/\"><p>Microsoft&rsquo;s design of Windows 11 is a concern because:<\/p><ol><li>Computer manufacturers, due to pressure from Microsoft, are designing new computers with artificial limitations like TPM and Secure Boot. These unnecessary add-ins push consumers to unnecessary hardware upgrades.<\/li><li>In the setup of newly purchased consumer-grade computers, there is obfuscation in the installation language. Many of the default choices are aimed at confusing customers into selecting options that share data with vendors:<ul><li>The process of setting up OneDrive to act as a backup of data. Without consent, the setup of this configuration moves all customers&rsquo; data to the cloud service, re-points all the user folders to a cloud-specific OneDrive folder that&rsquo;s very difficult to revert.<\/li><li>The process of selecting a browser is obfuscated by Microsoft&rsquo;s Edge Browser setup<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>The AI tool Co-pilot is installed and enabled without consent. Removal is difficult or nonexistent.<\/li><li>The history tracking tool &ldquo;Recall&rdquo; that is due to be released, sometime in the future, saves snapshots of your user experience into Microsoft&rsquo;s OneDrive cloud. It looks great on paper, but in reality, this feature, along with others, will be used to move forward a surveillance state.<\/li><li>Windows 11 prevents the complete uninstall of many of its built-in features. They can be removed from one user account, but they can be reinstalled during an update, or if you upgrade your computer, without your consent.<\/li><li>Microsoft Edge is forced on users as a replacement by obfuscating choice in various ways.<\/li><\/ol><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@colincornaby\/115380357192658441\">Colin Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@colincornaby\/115380357192658441\"><p>One of the biggest values of my 2019 Mac Pro has been having a single machine that can run Windows and macOS. With Windows 10 losing support that&rsquo;s basically the end of Boot Camp. Sort of grumpy Apple never added Windows 11 support.<\/p><p>Intel Macs are on the way out anyway. And I built an Intel Windows box last year. But what an inauspicious end for a killer setup. Can&rsquo;t even repurpose it as a pure Windows box without hacking the Windows install to bypass the TPM check (which may not work forever.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/04\/windows-11-install-to-require-internet-and-microsoft-account\/\">Windows 11 Install to Require Internet and Microsoft Account<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/03\/privacy-of-windows-copilot-recall\/\">Privacy of Windows Copilot+ Recall<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fight to Repair: A coalition of businesses, nonprofits, and elected officials (including Fight To Repair&rsquo;s parent organization, the Secure Resilient Future Foundation) has formally petitioned Microsoft to extend Windows 10 support, which is currently slated to end on October 14th. With more than a billion Windows 10 devices operating globally, it is estimated that hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-10-17T19:36:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"c90880d2-31ee-410d-9e0a-af53d5643996","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-10-17T19:36:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyQiA0jHuQQ2eCq9T1WQ5lg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1565,30,652,2742,1458,836,1451,219,1030,2099],"class_list":["post-49681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-boot-camp","tag-mac","tag-mac-pro","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-onedrive","tag-sunset","tag-windows","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49682,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions\/49682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}