home user guidance

  1. Windows 10 End of Support: ESU Enrollment or Upgrade with Microsoft Account

    Microsoft has formally ended free support for Windows 10, and every user still running that OS needs to take immediate action to avoid growing security exposure: either enroll in the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program or upgrade to a supported operating system—and for...
  2. Windows 10 End of Support: Why Disconnecting Unpatched PCs Now Is Smart

    A consumer‑facing warning telling people to take “extreme caution” with certain Windows installations has quickly become the dominant narrative in local and national coverage — and for good reason: Microsoft has ended mainstream support for Windows 10, multiple actively‑exploited legacy flaws...
  3. CVE-2025-54898: Excel Out-of-Bounds Read Risk and Mitigations

    Microsoft’s security tracker lists CVE-2025-54898 as an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that can be triggered by a crafted spreadsheet and may allow an attacker to achieve local code execution when a user opens a malicious file. Background Microsoft Excel remains one of the...
  4. Understanding Chrome’s 'Your browser is managed' banner: inspect and remediate

    Google Chrome’s terse banner — “Your browser is managed by your organization” — is both a useful audit cue and a common source of anxiety for home users who didn’t expect any outside control. The message is honest: Chrome has detected at least one non-default policy or managed preference. For...
  5. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU Options, Upgrades, and Privacy Choices

    Microsoft’s latest message to Windows 10 users is stark and unambiguous: the regular monthly security updates that have kept this decade-old OS safe will stop after October 14, 2025, and consumers must choose — upgrade, enroll in a short-term Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or accept...