Q: How long do you plan to provide security patches for Windows 10 after October 2025?

A: We initially plan to provide security patches for 5 years, but will extend that period if there is sufficient demand. (We're now in year 5 of Windows 7 support and will extend it further.)

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Let 0patch take over Windows 10 patching.

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long term fix

This is useful! Now that Windows 10 has ended support, I fear Chrome browser will stop updating one day and then banking website will refuse to log me in (like it already happened on my old mobile phone where Chrome last version is 119 and stop updating).

Switching to Linux is an option, but with your screenshot, I now have another option, that is to run Linux inside a VM. I still need access to Windows programming somehow and WINE isn't that nice to me.

thinking whether i should apply for esu coz dev machine too old to upgrade to w11..
at the same time might as well just move all my dev environment to win11 vpc and decommission that old machine

Running Linux is easy but you need beefy system, if using VMWare or VirtualBox.
Chrome based browser will continue to run just like most of the programs. but probably in another 5-10 times they will drop support

It's very resource intensive to maintain compatibility across different OS, system,
Eg new Windows with new graphic support, Direct2D, DirectWrite, WebGL/WebGPU/ and new codec support,
browser with unsupported OS and old driver will post security risk and performance issue due to lack of new GPU and driver support.

for developers, naturally will drop the old OS, welp, you're using the chrome for free after all.