Why stick with an OS that's losing support??
For me, it is mostly about the abject failure Microsoft's "support" has turned out to be. Their "support" has been at least as much of a millstone as a life preserver. This behavior on Microsoft's part arguably shouldn't be "supported".
The last "Patch Tuesday" (June 9) laundry list included
200 issues, including five known zero-days and one exploited zero-day. There were 38 "critical" vulnerabilities, including 28 Remote Code Executions, four Elevation of Privileges, and an Information Disclosure.
Among all "threat level" classes:
- 65 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities
- 19 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities
- 55 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
- 30 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
- 7 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- 27 Spoofing Vulnerabilities
According to
Bleeping Computer, users who are up-to-date with Windows 11 may experience problems (that don't throw an error) with third-party applications trying to open Office applications using OLE -- a core feature of Office since 1990.
Just yesterday, with the help of a one-man, third-party support site for Windows, I was able to get past a Windows Extended Security Updates activation error that has been plaguing me since October. The fix involved changing an obscurely-named registry entry from one to zero.
I still haven't figured out why Windows thinks I'm enrolled in the Windows Insider Program and, if I am, under what Microsoft account.