Vendor EOL strands enterprise deployments

When a vendor immediately retires a long‑standing, widely used enterprise tool (here Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) millions of devices and thousands of IT workflows are at risk of being left unsupported overnight. Organizations often lack legal or technical recourse, which creates operational, security and compliance exposure across government and industry. — This reframes vendor End‑of‑Life (EOL) choices as a public‑infrastructure governance problem that requires procurement rules, mandatory notice, escrowed artifacts, and fallback interoperability to protect national and corporate IT continuity.