Microsoft in December 2025: “We’ll continue to provide important security updates for Windows 10 customers until 2028.”
For a low price of $100 per month… /s
Naa they’ll make it free after a few months, better have a percentage of users running an old version of Windows that is safe than having to deal with the blowback of zero days pilling around.
Don’t need the /s, when they did that for windows 7 it had prices like that
Full disclosure: Haven’t read the article yet.
Working in corporate IT, this most likely is targeted toward enterprise customers who either take a long time to roll out OS upgrades or can’t due to technical limitations within their environment. In those cases, paying the cost of extended support is more palatable to troubleshooting or rushing mass OS upgrades. This is a fairly common practice with enterprise software vendors.
Edit: Okay, just skimmed it. Looks like this is actually a new program for non-enterprise consumers, which is interesting. First I’ve heard of that.
First I’ve heard of that.
It is indeed a new thing. For the reasons you’ve mentioned this was an option for enterprise customers for earlier versions of Windows as well, but this time they are making the option available to home consumers too. I can’t really see too many people paying for this though. Those who care will move on to Windows 11 (or whatever is out there by then) and others will simply keep running an unsupported / not updated OS. In all likelihood, MS will keep providing security updates for the latter for free in the end.
Yes, and? The same has been true of previous versions of Windows.
I think that in 2025 there will be a huge amount of new Lnux users.
A nice system you have there. Would be a shame if something would happen to it.
I think windows 11 is fine. All the weird hardware I use with my computer always seems to not work how I would like with linux. So linux for my servers windows for desktop.
Microsoft: Making Linux more attractive every year
So this is basically confirmation they’re moving entirely into a subscription based model
Wouldn’t surprise me if pirates like me somehow kept getting the security updates for free
So this is basically confirmation they’re moving entirely into a subscription based model
Ahm no. They are just charging for extended support.
Nope, in 2026 it tooks W11 with an suscription model. Do you know how to boil a frog? That’s the M$ business model.
and MS will give you the watermark
