That, and you have to be in the EU for it to happen. Americans can’t have that, and are forced to upgrade regardless. Unless they switch to Linux, they get clobbered regardless.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
You can still get an extra year of security updates, though
If you submit to Microsoft and log in to your Windows 10 machine with a Microsoft account and allow them to backup your system into the cloud.
msokiovt@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Americans can’t have that, and are forced to upgrade regardless.
No, I’m in the USA, this is what they’re offering in the USA, a year of extra security updates if you log in with an MS account and backing up the system to the cloud.
I’m actually a bit surprised the EU would allow it instead of just forcing MS to give everyone another free year of updates.
But I still see a potential Windows 7 situation happening, where they try to force the change, but so many people stay on Windows 10 and just accept the lack of updates that Microsoft will be eventually forced to push more security updates to not appear to endorse letting millions of machines become parts of botnets.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I’m actually a bit surprised the EU would allow it instead of just forcing MS to give everyone another free year of updates.
They did: baltimorechronicle.com/…/windows-10-security-upda…
Also, you can just pay $30 in the US if you don’t wanna sign in.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
No, if you’re in the EU you get 1 year updates free.
Microsoft has already made this available make months ago to US and the rest of the world, but required the weird MS login and settings backup to OneDrive. This is against EU rules, and the ruling that it isn’t ok came like a month ago or so. Since then Ms has been scrambling to make this possible, but I know many people who didn’t have the option even a week ago.
If you’re in the US or most of the world (but not EU), you can enable 1 year of updates by logging in with Ms account + backing up settings once per OneDrive. This enables updates, and you can instantly undo both things again, which won’t undo the update status.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
ltsc 2019 is gonna get supported until 2029, iot 2021 until 2032. you have options if you really want to stick with windows
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
For sure, but like expecting average people to understand the more technical side of Linux right off the bat, expecting average people to even understand that is an option is, frankly, elitist. The vast majority of humans just don’t even fundamentally understand the difference between “Windows 10” and “Windows 10 LTSC” and we’re not heading into a future in which they will all suddenly turn around and become computer literate when a vast amount of the world is barely regular literate.
We have got to stop expecting so much from average people and do a better job helping them.
I know maybe that’s what you intended to do, but if I was an average person, I wouldn’t have had any clue what LTSC and IOT meant without a lot of filling me in. Just food for thought, we have to spoon-feed this stuff to a lot of people, and be kind to them when they struggle with it.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
all im saying is you don’t have to sell your soul to MS for another year of security updates for an already shitty version of windows 10