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Posted on 09/24/2025 4:07:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Microsoft offers free Windows 10 security updates for one year to US and European users before support ends on October 14.
European users get free updates by logging in with a Microsoft account, addressing advocacy group concerns about forced upgrades.
US users can get free updates by uploading profiles to Microsoft's backup service or using Microsoft Rewards points.
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So for US users, it’s really not free if you don’t have Microsoft’s backup service or Microsoft Rewards points.
Grow a pair and go back to XP.
I’m not going into the Windows 11 debate...security...data collection and what not. BUT you can get Windows 11 pro, Microsoft office and other Microsoft products downloaded dirt cheap and with legit activation keys if you want.
Loading Ubuntu soon...
Live dangerously and go back to Vista.
Or be OG and go back to 3.11.
Ditto...I’ll be converting 4 computers to Linux.
I’m 100% sick and tired of the greedy control freaks running Microsoft Windows. Enough!
Surprisingly, it was free. Even moreso, my login worked, and the cell number was correct.
So if you voluntarily give them your data, they won’t force you to upgrade to the operating system that gives it to them automatically.
It worked fine
Linux friendly relational databases like MySQL aren't there yet for what I like to do (unless I go with mega expensive Oracle). So I'll stay with MS SQL Express (free if your DB size is within 10GB). And I'll keep using my already bought and paid for MS Visual Studio 2013 as long as it keeps being supported. (The personal software I make doesn't have to do with newer screen designs.) But maybe Java IDE's will one day be as good.
What was it...ME? Worst ever.
Microsoft ruined Windows 11 with needless changes to Windows Explorer (can barely see the translucent icons and little to no contrast), Right-click menu system has a fixed height (no longer expands to display ALL the menus), the calendar control no longer displays the clock above or to the right, and the Start button behaves differently, etc. The GUI is total garbage. Windows 11 is worse than Windows 10, Microsoft decided to regress the User Interface with mediocre Indian programmers. /spit
Bought a new laptop a couple of years ago. Microsoft sucks. I can’t get anything to work right.
Gave up. Even my camera won’t work. Hardware, software? Don’t know.
I had to dig to find Excel.
Pretty much gave up on spreadsheets since I only did a checkbook. I was an accountant and can’t give up reconciliations. Need to get over it. Can do it online.
All of my important stuff in cloud backed up.
Insulting customers is not the best policy to keep them!
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Thwere is a way to do it- via regedit- youtube has the videos
The article states that 650 million people are still using Windows 10 worldwide. Most other reference sites say that more than 700 million computers are still using Windows 10. The number is likely higher than that.
I was wondering how in all these areas where the populations have less disposable income than even the poorest regions of the United States... how were they going to be able to or willing to upgrade their hardware. This extension is good news... for them and people here.
I already have all of our Windows 10 computers running Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 which will get security updates until 2032. If this forum is any indication 99% of users here are not willing to go this route, believing that it is either too much trouble, or too difficult for them to accomplish.
Every computer that we own is already associated with a Microsoft Account and would have qualified for this extension. So, I guess that I blinked first and now the money I spent and encouraged others to spend on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 licenses was basically not necessary. So Whoopie!!!
“addressing advocacy group concerns about forced upgrades.”
At least someone is getting off their butts and voicing opposition! Everyone was going to just let MS force them to buy a whole new computer. If their product requires a whole new computer to use it then THEY should have to pay for it. In no way should a product cause an ADDITIONAL financial hardship for their customers.
Windows 11 insults user. Updates when it wants, middle of workday sometimes. Turned off updates for two weeks. Still updated 15 times in one week. Also crippling of programs to make me reboot which causes update which I have no control over how long will I be unable to work?
Windows 11 was released nearly 4 years ago; Windows 10 pulls the same type of crap and so did Windows 7. This is why knowledgeable people using these Operating Systems upgrade them to Pro or Enterprise. You can use the Group Policy Editor and other tools to mostly get this type of crap under control. But this is something that has been going on with Windows for around 15 years, but things really went off the rails when Satya Nadella officially became the Chief Executive Officer in 2014. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer were angels by comparison. Chief Executives born in India are ruthless.
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