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End of life does not mean your machines stop working. It means they stop getting security updates — and that is worse, because everything keeps running exactly as before while quietly becoming indefensible.
What it means in practice
No more patches. Every vulnerability found from that date onward stays open on your estate permanently, and compliance frameworks stop accepting the machine as in-scope.
What to do about it
Audit what you actually have, work out what can be upgraded in place and what needs replacing, then phase it — rather than discovering the problem the week it lands.
