On October 14, 2025, billions of people received an ultimatum: pay 25 pounds or see their computer security compromised. This 'virus,' pre-installed on machines ten years earlier, triggered a dreaded ransomware. You guessed it, it's called Windows 10. Still present on over 400 million machines too old to be updated, it represents a major security risk. Following a study of the technical, environmental, and political consequences of the end of Windows 10, Helen of Troy herself will remind us how Microsoft and Windows act as a Trojan horse within our computers and our institutions. She will also provide a quick overview of the best Linux distributions and alternative free software to evict as much as possible Microsoft from our digital walls. And like Antigone before her, she will encourage the world to defy the scandalous disposal of our ageing hardware.

As Helen once brought ruin dressed in beauty's sacred guise,
So Windows comes with marketing that hides monopolies' lies.
When your machine arrives with Windows pre-installed at birth,
There come with it a dozen programs of questionable worth!
And push by push, warnings, pop-ups, defaults set...
Dark patterns woven into one entangling net.
A gentle nudge becomes a guided way
Until the path becomes the only way.