Europe Gets Another Year of Windows 10 Updates for Free [pdf]

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Europeans will receive another year of free Windows 10 updates due to a legal settlement between Euroconsumers and Microsoft, ensuring continued security support for users.

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3 months ago

It's not free, you need to sign up to a Microsoft account for a year's worth of updates, which will follow you for more than 1 year.

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3 months ago

I must say this makes me a tad sad, I was sort of unofficially joining https://endof10.org/, but I guess I'll just be honest and tell my neighbors, my wife and people at the repair-cafe that they can wait another year.

The choice was between: Unsafe Win10, New computer, Give Linux a chance.

But this gives them a forth: Keep the same computer with Win10 for another year. I bet they all prefer it, I know my wife's happy nothing will change.

Edit: Of course there was also the options to pay.

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