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
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
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! 🙃
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
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:
Windows is just a gotcha game now lmao
Dormammu! I’ve come to bargain.
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.
When I see stories like this, what annoys me the most, is that people are still dumb enough to use Microsoft, and proprietary software in general.
Calling people dumb for using an insanely popular product is pretty unnecessary. Some grandma just playing solitaire on her old PC that she uses to pay bills and whatnot on and you walk by, “you dumbass, use Linux instead!”
Yes, because some grandma is exactly the kind of people I meant. And not her stupid children or friends who might have helped her with a Linux system instead. /s
My guess is you are just butthurt, because you are part of the problem, and not the solution.