Destiny 2 developer Bungie has discussed its “path forward” for its popular FPS following the announcement of redundancies at the company earlier this week.
16.10.2023 - 18:39 / pcmag.com
The Windows 10-pocalypse is a short two years away. On Oct. 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for Windows 10 PCs, at which point most of the world’s PCs—about one billion computers—will be running a dead operating system, like Windows XP. And most of those computers can't upgrade to Windows 11.
Half of the readers of my Windows Intelligence newsletter are still using Windows 10 on their primary PC. The one billion estimate comes from two sources: Microsoft, which has said there are more than 1.4 billion Windows PCs, and Statcounter, which shows that the vast majority of PCs on the planet—more than 70%—run Windows 10.
Worse yet, this isn’t like when Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7. Those PCs could upgrade to Windows 10, but this time around, many Windows 10 PCs don't suport Windows 11, at least not officially. If you can't afford to buy a new PC, you'll be left out in the cold after Oct. 14, 2025. From a security perspective, it’ll be as if you were using Windows XP or Windows 7.
"That’s the debate of our age,” Paul Thurrott, a journalist who’s spent decades covering Microsoft and owner of Thurrott.com, told me.
Thurrott pointed out that Microsoft extended support for both Windows XP and Windows 7, although support for Windows 7 only covered businesses that paid extra every year. “Honestly, Windows 11 adoption is less than I'd have thought, especially in businesses. That could cause [Microsoft] to continue support for Windows 10," he said.
I asked Microsoft for a comment on its plans, and a spokesperson said the company had “nothing further to share at this time” other than what's on the lifecycle page.
With past versions of Windows, Microsoft has offered businesses an Extended Security Updates (ESUs) program. Organizations could pay for up to three years of extra security updates for Microsoft products, at an increasing cost each year.
Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, an independent organization that advises businesses on Windows licensing, told me that Microsoft hasn’t announced ESUs for Windows 10. “The final decision will likely be a result of feedback from organizations with Enterprise Agreements" regarding where they are in terms of migrating to Windows 11, he said.
Still, he doesn’t see ESUs as the optimal solution and recommends businesses upgrade to the new operating system. “ESUs are expensive and do not offer a guarantee that Microsoft will be able to address and fix all vulnerabilities in older code without seriously affecting how features work; and Microsoft in the past has chosen not to fix a vulnerability due to the fixes' negative impact on the underlying OS operation,” Cherry said.
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Destiny 2 developer Bungie has discussed its “path forward” for its popular FPS following the announcement of redundancies at the company earlier this week.
Fortnite Chapter 4: Season OG goes live in a few hours once its downtime is complete, and it brings players back to 2018's Chapter 1 map, with throwback weapons, loot, vehicles, and more, too. While it's technically Season 5 of Fortnite Chapter 4, which follows the previous Last Resort season, developer Epic Games is calling it Season OG, and it makes sense considering how much of Fortnite 2018 is making an appearance.
On the first day of November, global-scale development on artificial intelligence was seen. At the UK AI Summit, global leaders from 28 different countries came together and committed to evaluating AI-related dangers together. In other news, billionaire Elon Musk, who is also at the AI Summit, reiterated his previous statement and called AI a risk. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
Disney Plus with ads has arrived in the UK. The streamer launched a cheaper, ad-supported plan in the US late last year, following in the footsteps of Netflix, and now the new tier has launched across the pond in the UK.
We haven't had a proper Silent Hill game in over a decade at this point, but Konami recently announced a whole slew of new titles coming in the near and distant the future. One of the first of these titles is Silent Hill: Ascension, a multiplayer interactive series similar to the likes of Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures games, albeit with less interaction than even those. At the time of writing, the series is set to premiere in just a few minutes, but fans already aren't best pleased with what they've seen so far.
ATLUS has released a new trailer for Persona 3 Reload introducing Mitsuru Kirijo, who is voiced by Allegra Clark in English and Rie Tanaka in Japanese.
allows you to pick between ten different exosuits with unique weapons and abilities, with a recent update including ten more as Alpha Variants you can unlock through basic progression. Although these Alpha suits share many skills as the standard ones, each has a different gun that changes their gameplay. These deviations allow you to explore additional characters that could appeal more to your preferred style of dinosaur hunting.
Alan Wake is the cornerstone upon which Remedy Entertainment’s magnum opus rests. This magnum opus is, however, not any specific game, but their interrelationship, resulting in the creation of the Remedy Connected Universe. And, though Control established RCU in concrete terms, understanding how it all began is crucial.
Alan Wake 2 launches this week, and developer Remedy Entertainment has detailed post-launch content including the two expansions and New Game Plus mode.
Welcome to the 2023 Overwatch® World Cup Group Stage and Finals! The top 16 teams traveling to Anaheim are ready for the first Overwatch World Cup Lan and Group Stage since 2019.
Developer Turn 10 has released a minor new update for racing game Forza Motorsport. The update, which has started rolling out today, addresses stability issues faced by players on all platforms.
The wait is nearly over. Super Mario Bros Wonder is almost here, and fans can’t wait to play it for various reasons. Easily, one of the biggest reasons is that the game is one of the highest-rated titles of 2023, and people want to see how great it is compared to what the critics say. But another reason gamers are excited about it is that players can use numerous new power-ups and abilities and want to try them out in spades. Not surprisingly, one of the ones that players love the most is the ability to turn into an elephant.