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Want To Keep Getting Windows 10 Updates? It'll Cost You $30 (pcworld.com)

(Thursday October 31, 2024 @06:40PM (BeauHD) from the extended-support dept.)


With Windows 10 support [1]set to expire on October 14, 2025, Microsoft is offering a one-time, one-year [2]Extended Security Updates plan for consumers. "For $30, you'll [3]receive 'critical' and 'important' security updates -- basically security patches that will continue to protect your Windows 10 PC from any vulnerabilities," reports PCWorld. "That $30 is for one year's worth of updates, and that's the only option at this time." From the report:

> Microsoft has been warning users for years that Windows 10 support will expire in 2025, specifically October 14, 2025. At that point, Windows 10 will officially fall out of support: there will be no more feature updates or security patches. On paper, that would mean that any Windows 10 PC will be at risk of any new vulnerabilities that researchers uncover.

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> Previously, Microsoft had quietly hinted that consumers would be offered the same ESU protections offered to businesses and enterprises, as it did in December 2023 and again in an "editor's note" shared in an April 2024 support post, in which the company said that "details will be shared at a later date for consumers." That time is now, apparently.

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> Back in December 2023, Microsoft offered the ESU on an annual basis to businesses for three years, one year at a time. The fees would double each year, charging businesses hundreds of dollars for the privilege. Consumers won't be offered the same deal, as a Microsoft representative said via email that it'll be a "one-time, one-year option for $30."



[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/14/1933221/lots-of-pcs-are-poised-to-fall-off-the-windows-10-update-cliff-one-year-from-today

[2] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/10/31/how-to-prepare-for-windows-10-end-of-support-by-moving-to-windows-11-today/

[3] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2507297/microsoft-adds-extended-consumer-support-for-windows-10-diehards.html



No. (Score:2)

by Big Hairy Gorilla ( 9839972 )

Simple question. Simple answer.

Re: (Score:2)

by JamesTRexx ( 675890 )

I wouldn't even use Windows 10 if they paid me $30,000,000, let alone $30.

Seriously.

MS was right: Windows 10 is the last version (Score:2)

by UnknownSoldier ( 67820 )

People are still using Windows XP. I doubt "everyone" is going to abandon Win10 for the Win11 garbage. I'll keep using Win10 until it is no longer feasible because I don't want nor need even more spyware crap from MS.

(Yes, I know MS never officially stated Windows 10 was the last version. It was the media misinterpreting Jerry Nixon's quote: "Right now weâ(TM)re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, weâ(TM)re all still working on Windows 10." when he probabl

demanding money to fix product defects (Score:2)

by Indy1 ( 99447 )

Sounds like fraud to me.

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