I wonder how they managed to get into that position.
There must have been some poor decisions in the past.
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Sure. As long as it works and someone else pays the bills, you can afford not to care.
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IMHO: Easy decisions. Once Microsoft got people to switch to Word and Excel via Office back in the OS95 days, it was “done”. I sat in a “seminar” held by Microsoft back in the early 90’s. They were pitching Office. I just happened to sit next to the manager of IT for a local University. She told Microsoft “can you imagine how hard it would be to move 300 people from Wordperfect to Word?”. They offered to help. They switched. Helped that Wordperfect started to suffer perfomance problems.
Now, you have a Domain Controller system that is also hosting Exchange server. You need to upgrade the system and the OS. "Maybe we should consider Office 365 business. Remote users don’t have to connect to “home”, more secure? Put our doc files in Sharepoint?” What does today’s society tend to do to solve problems? They throw money at them. I started with installation of a NT4 server, this in an environment running an IBM system 32. They now have Power9 (still call it AS400) running the same BICARSA software.
BTW: I have not had a system booting to Windows since Vista. Thinkpad T61, now it runs Mint. Sadly sits on the shelf.
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You cant solve scientific problems by throwing money at them. You have to think.
Technical problems should be the same.
Throwing money is the cause of poor scientific research and poor technical decision making.
How can we get people to think?
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What a high goal! 
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It should not be so.
The education system is failing us.
It’s quite true especially when you look at costs and connections to other devices
I had radiotherapy last year and the computer running the system was XP when I asked the technician he explained the cost of upgrade was just too much and everything continued to work without issue so no need to change. But it only had one function to switch the treatment on and off and control the amount nothing else no outside connection the database was loaded and everything ran from that
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Just been reading about 10, not in a rush to change my wife 10 machine which is not upgradable to 11 and until she does the house keeping on it and gets some space plus organisés where things are stored…..
Anyway
Microsoft Defender will continue to work in Windows 10.
Defender will receive regular security updates until October 2028
so no updates, no big deal she is at least protected !
But she does have a linux machine she never switched on no matter how i try to educate her.
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You could electrify the keyboard and mouse of the Windows computer. Perhaps then she will switch.
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She does pay the electric bill …
I am just waiting for her to say ok, perhaps as the long dark cold nights arrive she will think about it
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Sounds like a great relationship. You have made the switch possible for her and she can choose which one she likes and you’re there to help if needed. What else anyone needs from their partner!
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I convinced my wife of 50 years to switch to Linux - and she doesn’t regret it ( the 50 years nor the switch to Linux 
)
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I would guess that over 90% of windows lovers don’t even know Linux is an option as a different OS.
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But there are more and more sites recommending Linux now due to the limits on changing to 11
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Quite an achievement
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Many years ago, my wife was struggling to use a Window laptop. The kids asked me if she would do better with a Mac. I said that I doubted it, she is a creative artist and not logical. They gave her a MacBook anyway. She took to it right away. Just don’t move any of the 3049 items on her desktop! One day, when she was puzzled, our 12 year old granddaughter (now 25) leaned over and said “click here”. The new expert. I have never shown or mentioned Linux. Happy wife, happy life. 64 years and counting.
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The secret of eternal life.
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You don’t really have to keep your Windows 10 computer off the Internet if you don’t want to, provided you have a good hardware firewall, and if you use a router or a combination device for cable Internet subscribers that is known as a modem here in the U.S.A., you already have one, provided that you or your Internet provider have it configured to ignore all incoming connection requests (not block or deny them). That, your anti-malware suite, and your web browser, combined with good Internet security practices should keep you safe enough as long as you’re careful about which web sites you visit, and which hyperlinks you click.
What most people don’t understand is that the security updates your operating system receives are patches intended to close security vulnerabilities that have been found in the OS, most often introduced by feature updates. Since Windows 10 will no longer be updated, and has not received any feature updates in many months, most existing vulnerabilities have already been found and patched.
Another thing that Microsoft hasn’t been publicizing is that Windows 10’s Microsoft security suite will continue to receive platform and definition updates for several years to come, so you’ll continue to be well protected from malware going forward if you’re using it, and most other anti-malware providers will continue to support Windows 10 for an unspecified period of time as well. I suspect that as long as Windows 10 retains the majority of it’s current market share, anti-malware and web browser providers will probably continue to support their software on Windows 10. Keeping your web browser, and any third-party software you are using as up to date as possible is important too because they also play a roll in keeping you as safe as possible when you’re using your computer or surfing the Internet.
All in all, the future of Windows 10 doesn’t look as bleak to me as the term End Of Life makes it sound since all that rally means is that the OS will no longer receive feature and security updates, and since the OS will no longer be changing, the later of the two will pose a minimal additional risk over all, so if you want to continue to use Windows 10, you’ll probably be able to continue to do so, and you’ll most likely decide that you need newer hardware before the OS becomes too outdated to continue using safely.
Now, I’m no expert, and what I’m posting here is my own opinion, based on what I know about the Windows OS in general, so don’t take what I’ve written here as an expert opinion, because it’s not, but if others find what I’ve added to this thread here useful, then I’m very happy,
Ernie
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EOL, does not mean end of life for W10!!! It does mean “EOS”, end of support, which, for W10 means a slow death in the near future!!! That support, not only means, MS, but developers, will start dropping W10, like it is a '“hot potato”!!
One can run W10 for as long as one wants, but it is destined, and will soon join XP, Vista, W7 and W8 in the MS graveyard of unsupported OS’s!!!
Accept it or not, W10 will die!!!
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To become immortal an OS needs to either clone itself or spawn offspring.
I have not seen any signs of that in OS development, except perhaps Amoeba OS.
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