Windows Vista will reach end of support on 11 April 2017, with Microsoft ending\u00a0security updates, non-security hotfixes, assisted support options, and online technical content updates.<\/p>\n
“Microsoft has provided support for Windows Vista for the past 10 years, but the time has come for us to invest our resources towards more recent technologies,” said Microsoft<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The company said those who continue to use the operating system may become vulnerable to\u00a0security risks and viruses.<\/p>\n “Internet Explorer 9 is no longer supported, so if your Windows Vista PC is connected to the Internet and you use Internet Explorer 9 to surf the web, you might be exposing your PC to additional threats.”<\/p>\n Microsoft has also stopped providing Microsoft Security Essentials for download on Windows Vista.<\/p>\n Microsoft advised Vista users to upgrade to Windows 10.<\/p>\n Windows Vista will reach end of support in April 2017, with the OS no longer supported by Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,5216],"class_list":["post-203132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203134,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203132\/revisions\/203134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Microsoft adds game chat transcription to Windows 10<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"