Microsoft will officially end its standard support program for Windows 10 on 14th October 2025. At which point you’re bang out of luck if you want or need to keep running Windows 10 while keeping it secure, right?
Actually, no. Security outfit 0patch (via Neowin) says it’s going to effectively extend Windows 10’s lifespan by at least five years with its own security updates. What’s more, unlike Microsoft’s Windows Update service, which is famously intrusive, usually requires rebooting and can eat up a lot of time, 0patch says it takes a totally different approach.
To quote 0patch itself, it aims to deliver, “miniature patches of code (“micropatches”) to computers and other devices worldwide in order to fix software vulnerabilities in various, even closed source p…