Hello and welcome to the Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 edition of the Sands Internet Storm Centers.

Stormcast, my name is Johannes Orich, recording today from Jacksonville, Florida.

And this episode is brought you by the sands.edu,

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Well, of course, it's Microsoft Patch Tuesday, and we'll have to talk a little bit about

some of the patches released today, but I want to start out with talking about some of the

software that will no longer be supported after today.

First of all, Windows 10. Windows 10, no official free updates after today.

You can sign up for the extended security updates, which in the US costs you some money.

I think it's like $20, $30 or such a year.

It's not terribly expensive. In the European Union, I believe it's free. Not sure exactly what

will cost you in other countries. On the other hand, well, they really want you to upgrade

to Windows 11 and add sort of the obvious path here.

There were some issues creating the disks to update to Windows 11.

That should be also fixed now.

Office 2016, 2019, also no more updates after today.

Microsoft's goal here is to get you to sign up for Office 365.

But if you insist in having your own copy of Office, there is still Office 24 available. And that's also an extended update release.

So you should get updates for quite a few years to come. Exchange server, Exchange Server

2016-2019. No more updates after today. Here you have the Exchange Server subscription

addition to use for those who still need the Exchange Server on premise. And last time I pointed

out that Microsoft really wants you to move away from that,

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