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James Bentley

Microsoft is asking for 30 of your American dollars to keep Windows 10 safe for a year after it's put out to pasture

WIP versions of Windows 10 desktop background with light being filtered through a physical windows 10 logo.

Windows 10 will finally lose official support from Microsoft on October 14, 2025. But if you just can't stomach making that update to Windows 11, you can still get critical security updates, for a single year with a fee.

As revealed in the Windows Blog, the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program will be rolling out to consumers for the first time ever. This has traditionally been an offer exclusively to businesses, to allow those with older rigs to access security updates without having to update to Windows 11 immediately.

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