Remembering what Windows 10 did right—and how it made modern Windows more annoying

If you've been following our coverage for the last few years, you'll already know that 2025 is the year that Windows 10 died. Technically.

"Died," because Microsoft's formal end-of-support date came and went on October 14, as the company had been saying for years. "Technically," because it's trivial for home users to get another free year of security updates with a few minutes of effort, and schools and businesses can get an additional two years of updates on top of that, and because load-bearing...