[LINK] What is Mircosoft trying to do?

[Jim Birch]

If you run an OS that is not receiving regular security updates, you are
probably a menace to yourself and others.  This might not apply to experts
and machines running in secured environments but the average user should be
running a current OS.  The botnets of the Internet have been largely build
from old versions of Windows.   Apple moved to a continuous update model
and it is good that Windows is doing the same.  No security is perfect but
this is a big step in the right direction.

Jim