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looks like a Smart idea for Windows 10 end-of-life security issues...
Posted on 7/23/25 at 5:06 am
Posted on 7/23/25 at 5:06 am
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As Microsoft support for Windows 10 ends October 2025, 0patch steps in to ensure your computers remain protected. For those unable to upgrade or purchase Extended Security Updates (ESU), 0patch offers a seamless solution with five additional years of critical security patches until October 2030.
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Posted on 7/23/25 at 7:56 am to TigerGman
Yea, no it's not a smart idea 
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:43 am to bluebarracuda
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Yea, no it's not a smart idea
Ok. It was like 4:30 in the morning when I saw it, so I didn't plow through the details
Care to elaborate?
Posted on 7/23/25 at 1:02 pm to TigerGman
When I retired I dumped all my MS Windows crap and went strictly Apple/iPad/iPhone. Glad. Never looked back.
Posted on 7/23/25 at 1:08 pm to TigerGman
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0patch does not replace executable files or modify them in any way. It corrects them only in memory, which can be done without relaunching them.
I think I read about them on TheRegister or similar site a few weeks ago. 0patch shouldn't need to exist, but you know there are businesses that "need" it. I've seen clients using software and DBs that went out of extended support over 15 years ago. They're too lazy and uninspired to establish a program to even test what could go wrong, they're just absolutely terrified to touch anything, so it becomes more and more un-maintainable. Even worse, it's multiple versions of the same DB/Software in use in the same companies. Think 9 different versions of DB/2 that are out of support, etc. That's at FinServ, usually.
End users will do all kinds of dumb shite to keep a computer worth $1.75 in recycled plastic, rather than buy an $80 laptop off of eBay.
Posted on 7/23/25 at 1:10 pm to JawjaTigah
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Apple/iPad/iPhone. Glad. Never looked back.
As long as you keep buying new hardware, you're fine. Which is kind of goes against the point of the service. It's for people running ancient shite, on purpose.
Posted on 7/23/25 at 1:53 pm to TigerGman
I'm not letting a 3rd party service have basically unauditable access to my environment.
Just pay the $30/yr for Windows 10 esu to hold you over until you can upgrade the workstations
Just pay the $30/yr for Windows 10 esu to hold you over until you can upgrade the workstations
Posted on 7/23/25 at 2:46 pm to bluebarracuda
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Just pay the $30/yr for Windows 10 esu to hold you over until you can upgrade the workstations
Well that expires Oct 2026. So you can only get another year and you're out.
I had to upgrade 6 perfectly good Windows 10 boxes at my office cause of this bullchit
This post was edited on 7/23/25 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 7/23/25 at 3:33 pm to TigerGman
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I had to upgrade 6 perfectly good Windows 10 boxes at my office cause of this bullchit
This may get folks into thinking about Linux in the future. Sure, keep Microsoft up at the server/enterprise level. But, this royal doublecross has been eye-opening.
They reeled me back in with 10 being so good and stable. But, I knew they would have those meetings and someone would bring up the loss of revenue and then someone else would figure out a "security" (winkwink) reason to get everyone over to 11 and, by the way, ditch your smelly old (perfectly good otherwise) hardware, plebes.
The bad news is I'm having to replace at least 3 Windows machines. The good news, I'm going to use the old ones as Linux testbeds to plot a path forward without any Microsoft at all.
Posted on 7/23/25 at 3:37 pm to TigerGman
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Well that's expires Oct 2026. So you can only get another year and you're out.
They extended it for like 3 years for windows 7/server 2012 iirc, so wouldn't surprise me if they did the same for w10
Posted on 7/23/25 at 4:05 pm to Ace Midnight
Linux, especially Ubuntu desktop, is infinitely easier to set up and deploy than windows.
The big catch is that the ecosystem is intertwined and continually evolves, so unless you’re using containerized applications, you can’t just run the same shite for 10-20 years straight right alongside new shite like you can with windows.
The big catch is that the ecosystem is intertwined and continually evolves, so unless you’re using containerized applications, you can’t just run the same shite for 10-20 years straight right alongside new shite like you can with windows.
Posted on 7/23/25 at 4:35 pm to Dallaswho
At one point, I had a triple-boot, Windows XP (64-bit), Windows 7 and Ubuntu running, way back in the day, sharing the same documents and data files, differing only in applications.
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