#windows-10-end-of-support

#windows-10-end-of-support

Of the 183 vulnerabilities, eight of them are non-Microsoft issued CVEs. As many as 165 flaws have been rated as Important in severity, followed by 17 as Critical and one as Moderate. The vast majority of them relate to elevation of privilege vulnerabilities (84), with remote code execution (33), information disclosure (28), spoofing (14), denial-of-service (11), and security feature bypass (11) issues accounting for the rest of them.

With days to go before Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 support, there are hundreds of millions of computers that have yet to upgrade to Windows 11, despite the best efforts of hardware manufacturers and the operating system's marketers. On October 14, Microsoft will issue the final updates and security fixes, after which business customers will be forced to pay for extended security updates at $61 for the following 12 months.

Consumer Reports (CR), the venerable consumer rights organization known for its in-depth product testing, sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella this week. The letter, authored by the nonprofit's policy fellow Stacey Higginbotham and director of technology policy Justin Brookman, expressed "concern about Microsoft's decision to end free ongoing support for Windows 10 next month." Consumer Reports, CR for short, isn't the first organization to come to the defense of the soon-to-be-orphaned Windows 10.

While the initial focus is often on personal devices like laptops and desktops, there are many other endpoints that need consideration. One key example is the Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) on a Windows 10 device.