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Organisations of all kinds did, and now ESU updates are free for consumers in the EU: Microsoft conceded that they had to be according to some EU directive, alt
by debugnik 11mo ago
Organisations of all kinds did, and now ESU updates are free for consumers in the EU: Microsoft conceded that they had to be according to some EU directive, although it was related to software and not to environmental factors.
- varispeed 11mo agoMy understanding is that this is limited and only to one year? Next year will be back to square one.
- debugnik 11mo agoMicrosoft is selling the ESU in cumulative year-long batches, so they're only offering Year One for free for now. But depending on how many people are left on Windows 10, it wouldn't surprise me if they extend it by Year Two just to stay clear of the Digital Markets Act. As for limits, I think it's only a limit of PCs per account, but I think you've got that limit already for licenses anyway. And of course it won't last forever, sooner or later we'll be on square one again. I've personally already migrated my devices to Linux, except for a partition to play games that require anti-cheats, and I'm explaining to my family what their options are.