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Windows 10 users urged to upgrade to avoid "security fiasco"
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Sounds like ESET is happy to blame people for not having enough money to buy new computers or enough time and experience to switch to Linux.
Makes me wonder what necessitates this "security disaster". Surely, there is no other reasonable course of action that anyone aside from the consumer could take. I'm sure that ESET is only interested in avoiding security issues in writing that it would be the consumer's fault for not replacing their OS on, say, a two year old appliance to an entirely different, worse version that has different and unnecessary hardware requirements.
I mean their job is cybersecurity. Warning people that their OS is about to no longer receive security updates from the vendor seems pretty reasonable. They have no control over Microsoft's business decisions. The fact ESET even points out that people could move to Linux and get out of the Microsoft ecosystem is at least something.
Also, obligatory, "Fuck Microsoft."
I don't disagree, and also I think it would be better if this were framed as a failing of Microsoft instead of being on the consumer.