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 use Linux, it’s FREE!
Windows is just a gotcha game now lmao
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?
Classic enshittification, they’re stealing from Google this should be copyright stricken.
technically you don’t have to put any data in there we just have to have it enabled
Microsoft can die in a fire
no thanks microsoft
till
'til
FTLoG
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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! 🙃
eat shit and maybe I’ll consider watching you eat more.
How about “fuck you”?
“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:
