First you reasoning is nonsense. The criteria is not in how old it is but if it can still meet demand. An I 7 processor can take almost anything thrown at it. Especially any windows software. And they were still being sold a lot less than 10 years ago.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make. Windows 10 is a fine operating system... the only thing that is changing is that Microsoft will stop providing free security updates approximately a year and a half from now. Microsoft will continue producing updates for another four and a half years, but they will be charging most people and organizations for them. You will have the option of using 3rd party software that will provide security for newly discovered vulnerabilities.
The other option is to upgrade to Windows 11 which can be done easily on the vast majority of hardware currently able to run Windows 10. This is true even on equipment that has not been officially blessed by Microsoft. The complication is that If your hardware does not have TPM 1.2 which was standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 2009... then you are going to have some additional challenges and vulnerabilities. I would remind you that Windows 10 was not officially released until July 29, 2015.
The reason that I started this thread was to start a discussion on what is currently going on with this situation and what the options are for people currently running Windows 10. I do thank you and others for all of the loud wailing along with hand wringing and other forms of amusing “the sky is falling” behaviors. It is a good example of how whiny our society has become.
No, there is nothing nonsensical about my reasoning. You are barking up the wrong tree. My collection of vintage computers goes back to the late 1970s and is rivaled by few other hoarders of vintage items. I still have the first “home computer” that I ever purchased, a TI-99/4a along with earlier “digital” kits that came from many years previous to that. I began soldering electronic components together in the 5th grade.
Very few people spend more time patching up very old things than I do. I recently finished a ten-year long self-imposed project where I revamped a 120-year-old derelict house. I have restored player pianos from the same time period along with wind up phonographs. I have a 1942 Cadillac that I have brought back from the dead after it sat in a marsh for 30 or 40 years. I could go on and on. But you should get my point by now.
Your posts appear to have been written by an ungrateful spoiled kid. Microsoft is not obligated to keep holding you by the hand while the world moves on. No one is making you throw away or stop using your old gear. This was meant to be a discussion about the best ways to cope with the changing times... instead thanks to you and others it devolved largely into a whine fest of nonsense with a few bright spots from those who have made an attempt to contribute something helpful to others.