So, please, this slightly clickbait, title, but and I've seen the, and the windows XP support and the panic around that. The same with Windows 7. And we're also seeing a lot of changes on the down Nvidia side this year. So we wanted to make sure everyone's aware up to speed on a year when we're getting asked a lot about upgrading and, what you need to do. that topic, just a little overview of the key points. it's always good to keep up to date with SolidWorks. I know you made that, like a little bit behind first to make sure you're, you're getting, you so testing before you upgrade to latest release. But there are a lot of improvements, small and big, that will affect your day to day workflows. And it's about keeping up to date with the latest software, both for the, features and also for the enhancements to performance hardware. Well, we always say a 3 to 5 year replacement cycle is the kind of optimum balance. It's going to vary depending on what you're trying to achieve, but you know, if you like to fall behind, you're really suffering. The engineering users, usually the ones who benefit the most. Maybe you can repurpose that, internally. And we do a lot of testing real world data to give you an idea and help you justify that upgrade as well. Don't forget about keeping those skills up to date. So we do a lot of webcast live events and also dedicated training and consultancy services to make sure you've got those best practices, the best hardware and software. It's only going to get you so far. You need to make sure you're also doing all the things that are going to improve performance with your supplements, data sets, and security. That's something that's an even hot topic every year. At some point on the hardware side of C, they're going to stop supporting it, stop releasing patches. But on the software side, we're seeing the end of support for Windows 10. And similarly, even on the Sullivan side, there are going to be patches for security vulnerabilities. And some of us are only going to go so far back as developers to patch those. So it gives you some ideas or reasoning behind this webcast, making sure you're aware the changes are coming. and so we started off with the the Windows 10 support. And really, what does that mean? You know, you may have seen bits about this and the security updates. It's all coming up. But for staff with this and see who is running Windows 10, who's running Windows 11, anyone on even older releases? I had, tours around the country. Had over 8000 users, events recently around the UK, and there was still some putting the hands up for Windows 7. it's around 60%. People are still running windows, ten across the industry. So across the world that shows we're on the right track. Good that we're doing that today. Because support ends in October. And, what this means is that, there won't be any further patches. And although you can pay Microsoft for extended security updates that'll cost you hundreds of dollars, hundreds of pounds across the course of maximum of three years per machine. And it doesn't even extend to Software support. So even if you're running Microsoft's own products, the Office suite, OneDrive, etc., they are not going to support you if you have a specific issue with Windows 10 with those programs. And that kind of alludes to why some of us are also stopping support. In October. Because there are quite a number of prerequisites for SolidWorks and Microsoft products. So if we get an issue specific to that, we're not going to get any help from Microsoft. So as a result, some of it's 2026 will not install on Windows 10. So that's going to be released around the end of October, early November. So it's time to get prepared both on the kind of windows side and also to further support SolidWorks. So checking things like your servers also will support, a version that will work on Windows 11. So SolidWorks 2022 Service Pack two was the first version that supported Windows 11. I'm not going to say it was trouble free of the sudden smaller issues. It had to be fixed over the service packs of that release. That's the absolute minimum. We would always recommend being on a version that's within the SolidWorks support lifecycle currently, that some of it's 2024 or 2025. So what does this really mean? The limits release software usually runs from October November each year, and it gets around a year of service packs. So usually five updates. It then gets a further year of hotfix support. So that means critical patches for any particular issues. Maybe there's a windows update that causes a problem or there's a security issue. SolidWorks commit to supporting that for two years. So that means, that's the minimum really. They're going to actually support. And you can check for these. And so is a general hotfix is usually for bugs. But you'll also see some security vulnerabilities on that page. And there's a dedicated page there as well. And this is always a bit of a hot sort of topic. And I wait for those, compliance to cyber security. We have to maintain all our software, make sure it's patched. So if that's a factor for you as well, make sure you keep an up to date, saying I'm never going to produce a patch for an older release, but there's a limit. They can't go back so far that, the development effort would be huge. So what about your existing piece? Is it going to work with Windows 11? Well, there is a nice little check. Microsoft PC health check. also the vendor's website on a Dell has a really good page on this showing you what models are supported, because obviously you can have drivers as well as and the minimum support as general guide. It's going to be 2018 or newer. The CPU and support TPM 2.0 security. So that is used for encryption. And securing the Bios, things like Windows 11. That's one of the prerequisites to installing this thing is should you continue using such outdated hardware. We recommend that 3 to 5 year replacement cycle. And if it does support Windows 11, maybe you can repurpose it somewhere else inside the organization. Or you can take advantage of something like Dell's Asset Recovery. A bit of a teaser at