Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:33:45 -0700, T wrote:

Would you ride in a car with your seat belt on that was one update away
from crashing and killing everyone in the car?

Not exactly a recommendation for running outdated versions of Windows, is
it?

I do PCI (Payment card industry) consulting .  Those customers are
required to have all critical patches installed within one month of
announcement.  All system have to be supported.  It is almost a full
time job fixing things that were not broken in the first place.
 
This is a hot button for me.  "Some" of my colleagues in the area will
not help a company in trouble until they let them upgrade all their
systems and software to current versions.
It is unethical make work.  And it usually winds up in a horrible
disaster.

But if it is a legal requirement, then you have to make it work. Or else.
Signing off on fulfilling PCI requirements, when the customer hasn’t
actually met those requirements, is the course of action with the dubious
ethics, I would think.