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Windows 10 Gets Another Reprieve, And This Was Easy to See Coming

June 26, 2026 by Edward Silha

A humorous cartoon comparing Windows XP and Windows 10 as two stubborn old operating systems refusing to retire while Microsoft looks frustrated.Back in the fall, I said Microsoft was going to have to extend Windows 10 support again. The numbers made it obvious. There were simply too many machines still running it, and not enough realistic paths to Windows 11 for a huge chunk of users. Now here we are.

Microsoft has quietly added another year to its Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10, pushing support out to October 12, 2027. That gives users an extra twelve months of critical security patches beyond the original cutoff, and it confirms what a lot of us in IT already suspected. Windows 10 was never going away on Microsoft’s original timeline. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Tech In General Tagged With: cybersecurity, enterprise IT, ESU, extended security updates, Microsoft, Microsoft support lifecycle, operating systems, PC hardware requirements, TPM 2.0, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows upgrades, Windows XP comparison

Microsoft OneDrive Update Prompts Security Fears Over Personal Account Syncing on Work Devices

May 9, 2025 by Edward Silha

FT BLOG OneDrive Personal SyncMicrosoft is quietly pushing out a OneDrive update that’s catching IT departments off guard. A new feature prompts users—by default—to connect their personal OneDrive accounts to corporate machines. No setup needed. The feature just appears and offers a quick, seamless sync between personal and business storage.

Here’s the obvious problem: once files from a corporate machine end up in a personal OneDrive account, they’re basically outside the company’s control. No logging. No tracking. No oversight. That means sensitive information could be moved or shared in ways the organization can’t monitor—and probably wouldn’t approve of. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Cybersecurity Tagged With: cloud storage, corporate devices, data exfiltration, data security, DisablePersonalSync, enterprise IT, IT policy, Microsoft, OneDrive, personal sync

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