Even without MS' support it'll still work fine.

In fact, it's arguably better that way.

The old saying about known unknowns vs. unknown unknowns comes to mind.

The support you're paying for is security updates against 0-day attacks. Once you stop receiving those then your machine becomes open season for botnets

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userbinator 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That is pure FUD. Machines behind a firewall are not going to be affected at all.

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artificialLimbs an hour ago | parent [-]

As long as you don’t run that one file.

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agadius 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Microsoft security patches doesn’t protect you from doing that. Unsupported Win 10 behind firewall is perfectly fine, as long as you use an updated browser

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tech234a 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

Even that won't last forever. Notably, Edge is only guaranteeing updates until October 2028 [1], coinciding with the end of its 3-year ESU period. Previously, Chromium ended support for Windows 7 at the end of its ESU period (which was also the end of support for Windows 8.1) [2]. However, Firefox continues to support Windows 7/8.1 by providing security updates for an older ESR version of Firefox 115; they appear to be re-evaluating whether to continue support every 6 months, currently set to end in March 2026.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...

[2]: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/185534985/sunsettin...

[3]: https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr

	▲	userbinator 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have patched Firefox 115 to run on XP, so no doubt it would be much easier to continue doing it for something as new as Win10.