Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026.
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 04:55 zuletzt editiert vonno thanks microsoft
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Holding security updates hostage is a sicko business strategy. I hope the EU sues them for it.
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 06:24 zuletzt editiert von lud@lemm.eeWindows has always* done this and so do many others. I very much doubt that the EU would fine Microsoft for it. Since when was extended support against EU regulation?
For example companies like redhat do the same thing for end of life software: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus
I'm not familiar with Suse but it looks like they pretty much do the same thing: https://www.suse.com/products/long-term-service-pack-support/ .
Ubuntu too: https://ubuntu.com/security/esm
Of course IBM: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-security-extended-support
*I'm unsure if they have allowed regular consumers to buy extended support before, since consumers mostly don't give a shit about updates. This is at least the first time you could get extended support through any other means than paying for it.
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 06:27 zuletzt editiert vonMicrosoft can die in a fire
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 07:11 zuletzt editiert vontill
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 07:27 zuletzt editiert vonGetting a discount to hand over your data into their cloud so they can train their AIs on it? And hold you hostage in case you dare to switch the OS?
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Calling people dumb for using an insanely popular product is pretty unnecessary. Some grandma just playing solitaire on her old PC that she uses to pay bills and whatnot on and you walk by, "you dumbass, use Linux instead!"
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 07:38 zuletzt editiert von buffalox@lemmy.worldYes, because some grandma is exactly the kind of people I meant.
And not her stupid children or friends who might have helped her with a Linux system instead.
/sMy guess is you are just butthurt, because you are part of the problem, and not the solution.
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 08:25 zuletzt editiert von pirate@feddit.orgI just wish to compliment Microsoft on them accurately prophesying that Windows 10 would be my last windows.
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- Reads this on his iOS phone
- While playing modern games on fedora workstation 42
- While all my backups and containers run on a synology nas
- with a literal blank 2nd hard drive that used to have windows 10 on it but now has nothing
- while his computer illiterate wife uses her hp laptop just fine with linux
Ya… Go f yourself Microsoft. You used to be the cool kid in town. Now you’re trash.
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 08:58 zuletzt editiert vonI'm sorry to disagree. I've been using Microsoft crap since the days where you had to free up memory in config.sys to load Novell Netware drivers, and never has Microsoft been the cool kid in town. It was always the fat bastard bully kid that would beat and extort the other kids.
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Getting a discount to hand over your data into their cloud so they can train their AIs on it? And hold you hostage in case you dare to switch the OS?
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 10:59 zuletzt editiert vonClassic enshittification, they're stealing from Google this should be copyright stricken.
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Getting a discount to hand over your data into their cloud so they can train their AIs on it? And hold you hostage in case you dare to switch the OS?
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 11:41 zuletzt editiert vontechnically you don't have to put any data in there we just have to have it enabled
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Holding security updates hostage is a sicko business strategy. I hope the EU sues them for it.
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 11:42 zuletzt editiert vonthey're deprecating the product, this is pretty normal
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I'm sorry to disagree. I've been using Microsoft crap since the days where you had to free up memory in config.sys to load Novell Netware drivers, and never has Microsoft been the cool kid in town. It was always the fat bastard bully kid that would beat and extort the other kids.
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 11:57 zuletzt editiert vonLOL
I’ve been using it that long too, and I suppose you’re right.
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When I see stories like this, what annoys me the most, is that people are still dumb enough to use Microsoft, and proprietary software in general.
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 12:57 zuletzt editiert von mangopenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneIt's not because they're dumb, it's because it's easy and because it's the OS a computer comes with (with the tiny exception of some systems where you can choose linux).
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They've always said that extended support would be available. It's like this with every single enterprise product. Red Hat Linux, VMware, etc all do it.
I'm all for circle jerking against Microsoft, they fucking suck. But this particular example is just such a dumb thing to get on a soapbox about. Businesses can't be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free. Some Linux distros can do it because people volunteer their time and skills to do so. But that isn't feasible for a business to just pay dozens of developers to continuously work on a product that isn't actively pulling in revenue.
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 14:18 zuletzt editiert vonBusinesses can’t be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free.
Of course not but they themselves announced long ago that win10 will be EOL'd in October 2025. Then later they announced that you can buy extra support for plenty and increasing amounts of money. And now this.
Though even longer ago they announced that win10 will be the last windows ever.
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Businesses can’t be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free.
Of course not but they themselves announced long ago that win10 will be EOL'd in October 2025. Then later they announced that you can buy extra support for plenty and increasing amounts of money. And now this.
Though even longer ago they announced that win10 will be the last windows ever.
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 16:48 zuletzt editiert vonThey never said Win 10 would be the last ever. That was an off-handed comment made by one of the developers during an interview that the media spread as an official Microsoft statement, which it wasn't.
And yes, MS said the EOL was October 2025, but anyone that's familiar with any of Microsoft's previous software sunsets know that they always offer paid extended support. For example, Windows Server 2012R2 was sunset in what, 2023sh? But they offer paid extended support up to sometime in 2026.
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 17:24 zuletzt editiert vonWindows is just a gotcha game now lmao
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schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 19:47 zuletzt editiert von"Till" is completely valid synonym of until. "'Til" is an informal contraction (and was probably meant to be the actual word "till"). If you're gonna be aggressively prescriptive, at least pick an actual battlefield instead of attacking innocent folks.
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 20:05 zuletzt editiert vonI use Linux, it's FREE!
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 21:18 zuletzt editiert vonOr just switch to Linux and run windows on a virtual machine?!
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An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).
Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 23:56 zuletzt editiert vonI didn't realize they provide security update to Fedora lol
They're scramble hard right now.
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