https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/24/stay-secure-with-windows-11-copilot-pcs-and-windows-365-before-support-ends-for-windows-10/

Microsoft will now offer free Windows 10 security updates until October 2026 to

>consumers who enable Windows Backup or spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points,

the company said today.

Windows 10 uptes otherwise end in October 2025.

The company will notify Windows 10 users about the ESU program through the Settings app and notifications starting in July, with full rollout by mid-August.

>Both free update pathways require a Microsoft Account,

which the company has increasingly pushed in Windows 11. Business and organizational customers can still purchase up to three years of ESU updates but must pay for the service.

>Note that a paying customers is not forced to create a Microsoft account.

Windows 10 remains installed on 53% of Windows PCs worldwide, according to Statcounter data.

>>105694944 (OP)
>spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
lol
lmao

My fucking sides. I noticed just earlier today that they're offering paid ESU to retail customers for $30 a seat, I'm 90% sure they've never done even that before. And now this. Holy fucking kek.

>>105694944 (OP)
why do you care when you can just pirate esu updates and ltsc?

>>105695318
This is big news for the 99% of the population that can't and represents a huge L on Microsoft's part.

>charging people to not use windows 11
kinda based

There's no difference between win10 and win11. I have win11 on my laptop and wind10 on my PC and they are the exact same thing except win11 has file system tabs which is useful. Everything else is exactly the same.

>>105694944 (OP)
everyone saw this coming. they literally can't afford to have an entire generation of poor people realizing they don't actually have to update.

If you (use) install windows updates to begin with you're niggercattle.
I never installed a 10 update out of spite that they removed the update controls.
The only thing that matters is software support which is only affected by service pack not every tiny update.
It really just goes to show how stupid nu/g/ is that they actually care about windows update (or rather still use windows despite how unusable its gotten)

>>105694944 (OP)
Not my problem.

>>105695556
>This is big news for the 99% of the population that can't
What's stopping them?

>>105697142
>using linux in 2025
embarrassing

What to do? Install minimal Linux to boot up a window 11 vm?

Didn't microsoft say that windows 10 will be last windows and they will just keep updating it...

>>105694944 (OP)
People are surprised about this?
Every single other version of Windows up till now has also had paid extended support. It'll be generally available for a bit, but after that you'll have to pay a fuckton of money for continued support and maintenance.
If you got enough money you can get MS to supply you with Windows NT4 patches even.

>>105698950
AI chatbot that's not what this thread is about.

>>105697146
Being non-/g/entoomen

And being told to install Linux if they don't want to spend $500 on their 3-4 year old PC because they don't have TPM enabled and can't be assed to turn it on for a worse Windows update.

>>105698950
>Every single other version of Windows up till now has also had paid extended support.
Not for consumers. And THIS was the first time AND Microsoft said "pay us $50 + 10 + 10 (60, 70) a year to get THREE YEARS MAXIMUM" for non-Businesses.

Consumers went "fuck that, I'm sticking with 10" and MS is now panicked.

>>105695586
>Everything else is exactly the same.
>t. Someone that hasn't used Explorer.exe and right clicked
Ok, MSAnon-kun.

>>105698943
Yes, and then made Windows 10 (11) and said "whoops! Windows 9 (10) as a service was a mis-spoken thing!"

Watch as Windows 11 (12) releases in five years and they try to dustbin Windows 10 (11)'s mistakes.

>Why are you calling them a version earlier?
Because 7-8-9, hurr hurr hurr. But really, skipping a version to match OS X was stupid.

As someone who works a 6 figure tech salary I still haven't encountered anything I can do to make my living that can't be done on linux.
With it's current state and that in mind I full time tumbleweed which can do snapshots with less hoops than any version of windows I remember

>>105697146
Where I work the office PCs run Windows 10 on hardware that is incompatible with Windows 11. Just using pirated software isn't really an option even if I'll probably get away with it. The BSA pays people to snitch. Don't want to take a chance.

>>105694944 (OP)
>or spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
>It's actually true
The absolute state of the last windows you'd ever need 10 years ago...

>>105694944 (OP)
>Windows 10 remains installed on 53% of Windows PCs worldwide, according to Statcounter data
11 still being installed on fewer computers than 10 even after nearly four years and EOL rapidly approaching must be causing some panic in the back offices. That’s something I would pay to see. Not more updates. MS are you listening?

>>105699733
It won't take that long for 12 to release

They’re literally never going to release Windows 12, are they? I refuse to buy a new PC until it comes out and it just isn’t doing.

>>105701752
Not anytime soon. Microsoft is probably panicking over how hard it is to get users to shift over to Windows 11, even if they do have compatible hardware. Not to mention that just the idea of some manufacturers shifting over to SteamOS for gaming handhelds is enough to make them shit bricks despite being such a small segment of the overall PC market.

>>105698907
Windows is much better in a VM but don't bother if you plan to do absolutely nothing natively in Linux.

>>105698907
dual boot retard

>>105704067
>"Here grandma, I put dualboot in your computer so you can use Windows and Linux now, if you need MS Office go to Windows, if you are watching Netflix go to Linux"

>>105695586
My wife tried to tell me that when she gets her new PC, shes going to use 11 because its what shes used to from her work laptop. I told her straight up that if she does, I absolutely REFUSE to do ANY tech support for her and she will have to pay someone to do it. That same day, she needed to print out a shipping label. She couldnt get her work PC on 11 to connect to the printer, either through wireless or wired. While she was waiting for the new copy of the software to download and install, I connected my 10 PC that had never even been connected to the printer before to the printer and had the label printed out in less than 5 minutes. Shes now going to be installing a MASSGRAVE copy of 10 on her future PC.

Fuck microsoft. Ive never paid for a single copy of windows in my life and I never will. Ive used windows from 98 all the way to 10.

>>105704028
>Not to mention that just the idea of some manufacturers shifting over to SteamOS for gaming handhelds
MS has a bigger problem than SteamOS on handhelds. Valve is allegedly working on its own living room console system. Which means all the conveniences of a console - e.g.. a pre-set range of hardware simplifying compatibility and minimizing esoteric driver issues with games; "start it and it just works"; etc. paired with the backwards compatibility of a PC and the open-endedness of modding.

That thing will invariably grab traction, and result in many PC gamers realizing a Valve console is just going to be cheaper and easier to use for gaming. Which means whatever system they use on the side is just going to be something low-power that can run a browser and some office applications. It's going to make Windows as an OS largely superfluous for consumers, which majorly gravitate there for DirectX and games and brand name.

But nowadays, they'll just as easily move to something else as long as it has a decently sized screen and a good browser.
Windows would basically be relegated to a specialist market for professional office use. Like for complex call center integrations with CRM software.

>>105694944 (OP)
>buy our slop or get a virus.
I can't see how treating your customers this way can possible backfire.

>>105697157
second. OpenBSD is vastly superior.

>No updates
>Pay $30 for updates
>Use 1,000 god goy points to get updates <--- you are here
>Free updates
Hold the line.

>>105704267
It's not even updates.
It's just patching security holes that shouldn't even be there in the first place.

>>105704216
ya say what u want about apple but they're laughing at microsoft rn

>>105699711
There's a registry you can edit to get the old context menu.
>>105704115
Your wife is going to divorce you. Also I set up a printer in win11 with zero problems, maybe you're just retarded.

>>105699771
This type of post is completely vacuous. Go back to orange reddit.

>>105705304
I guess I struck a nerve
Tell your mother if she wants to have a child with a real man to give me a call and I'm no nice of a guy I will even let you feltch my cum from your origin hole

I ain't switching from Win10 until Win12 comes out. They always fuck up every other version.

>>105705708
>he doesn’t know

>>105694944 (OP)
>consumers who enable Windows Backup or spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points

That's equal to exactly one dollar. ONE dollar...

But I have a local account and not a microsoft account SO I STILL AIN'T GONNA DO IT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>105694983
You can get it in 3 days

>>105694944 (OP)
kek it's funny how they've been backpeddling bit by bit as the date approaches
they will eventually just make them regular free updates as the date gets closer (when they realize no one is switching) because of the amount of bad press that they would get if there was an huge windows 10 hack while so many people are still using it.

>>105707162
huh, i already 3000 of them for some reason

>>105704267
Windows 10 chads are IN
Windows 11 chuds are OUT

>>105705793
10 was good.

>>105694944 (OP)
so w11 was just a 4d chess move to normalize paid updates to windows

>>105694944 (OP)
>>consumers who enable Windows Backup or spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points,
Fuck. Off.

>>105701752
I think by 2028 when the extended w10 support runs out. Maybe earlier but I don't think they'll want to deal with 3 versions of the same OS again.

>>105705793
>he fell for the meme

>>105694944 (OP)
>Windows Backup or spend 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
i really hate these niggers

>>105694944 (OP)
>consumers who enable Windows Backup
>gibe us your data to train AI durrr

>>105694944 (OP)
Not installing your "updates" Rajeesh

>>105694944 (OP)
mas works for ESU btw

>>105694983
>>105707162
You can get them in two days on a fresh MS account. The Bing App for smartphones also just lets you click a bunch of shit to get +300 points at a time.

The new Microsoft system are so unbelievably toxic that the world is choosing Android.
Android is actually worse, but this isn't entirely evident yet. Google has far more control over Android hardware than Microsoft ever did over PC hardware.

I'm just not upgrading. They had to force-upgrade me to 10. If anything I will revert to a distributed windows XP. only failing that will i use linux, because troons

>>105708771
>You can get them in two days on a fresh MS account. The Bing App for smartphones also just lets you click a bunch of shit to get +300 points at a time.

Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points Sar for free updates

>>105694944 (OP)
>copilot PCs
This is why Windows is a lost cause now. TPM, Pluton, and an NPU will surely be a requirement from now on to use their bloated tower of duct tape OS.

>>105707162
>>105708771
You sound like gachafags
>just do dailies for 3 days bro
Fuck off

>>105704095
>if you are watching Netflix go to Linux
XD

>>105709362
It does suck but you have until October 14 to grind. I think you can also get MS points by playing Halo

>>105694944 (OP)
I did one better. Upgraded my parents PC's to LTSC IoT 2021.

>>105707214
Don't redeem

>>105704245
cuck licence

>>105705793
10 is bad but not as bad as 8/8.1

>>105708771
Microsoft is swagbucks now?

>>105710299
cuck points for using their products. if i recall all the turd worlders did it to get free game pass and they caught onto that and didn't allow you to anymore. they got hella mad.