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
I wish to compliment Microsoft on them accurately prophesying that Windows 10 would be my last windows.
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?
technically you don’t have to put any data in there we just have to have it enabled
Classic enshittification, they’re stealing from Google this should be copyright stricken.
Microsoft can die in a fire
till
'til
FTLoG
no thanks microsoft
This stinks of their enterprise practices. They are masters of creating extremely confusing plans for pricing that involve bundling, discounts for various combinations, etc. In the end, you get a fat ass bill at the end of every month. When you ask them to explain it, they will say that this component was generated by one team, another by a different…
You will never get a straight answer and if you do, it will take weeks. By then you have another bill and you get to start all over.
I am so over Microsoft and their bullshit. I don’t use any of their shit at home and I actively remove anything I can of theirs at work. Punting Defender out of our environment was my best day ever.
What did you replace Defender with?
SentinelOne
So all your users are working on Macs or Linux? That’s an impressive accomplishment for an enterprise scale work environment.
It was easier for our 500+ employees when our CFO pointed out that its either switch to Linux and have a learning curve or see some of your coworkers, maybe even yourself be laid off. We actually saved so much money dumping Microsoft products that we were able to hire tech ambassadors to help the older folks get setup with the new software.
I love this so much. We use Macs at work but there’s absolutely no reason we couldn’t just use Linux. 60% (guestimated) of the work, across all departments, is done through the browser and the other 40% is software development. I’d much rather have more smart people around than a $2000 locked down laptop.
Holding security updates hostage is a sicko business strategy. I hope the EU sues them for it.
they’re deprecating the product, this is pretty normal
Windows 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.
Microsoft gonna send someone to smash your kneecaps for talking like this. They are shaking their nice guy image and going full gangster pimp.
Yeah, Microsoft came to bargain, but I came to flip 'em the bird cause I already switched to linux.
I switched to Linux last year. I’m just a teacher but I’ve got pretty good techy skills having grown up in the late 80s with computers. Switching to Linux gave me some small problems at first, but everything works just fine for me. My husband’s been pretty curious seeing me have fun with it and mess around on my computer more. Maybe I’ll get him to switch one day too! 🙃
They want your data, your money and your PC.
But hey, you get 1000 … “Points”?
You have to spend 1000 points to get the updates.
“Meta launches new sponsor hand-branding app”
Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Gmail uses AI to contact debt collectors when it looks like you may not pay on time.”
Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Microsoft randomly kills 100 users’ children per day until demands are met”
Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me:
eat shit and maybe I’ll consider watching you eat more.
- 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.
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.
LOL
I’ve been using it that long too, and I suppose you’re right.
How about “fuck you”?
So windows 10 isn’t EOL’d in October 2025 after all.
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.
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.
It is, u less you pay more
