Microsoft is making you pay to use Windows 10 securely after 2025. Here's how much it'll cost you

[Windows Central]

Microsoft has confirmed pricing for its extended support updates program for consumers looking to stay on Windows 10 beyond its end of support deadline next year.

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[Just_Me_D]

I don’t have a problem with this since it’s specific to support beyond the product’s end of support deadline.

 

[Ron-F]

The policy of no security updates is like a dream come true for the IT guys at my job. I anticipate they will advocate for converting many machines to Linux. In the end, the users will choose, a very few will go to Linux but distrust in Windows will increase.

 

[GraniteStateColin]

The policy of no security updates is like a dream come true for the IT guys at my job. I anticipate they will advocate for converting many machines to Linux. In the end, the users will choose, a very few will go to Linux but distrust in Windows will increase.

"distrust in Windows"? Why would the standard process of OS obsolescence a few years after introducing the successor OS increase or decrease trust in Windows? What does this have to do with trust? If anything, I suppose keeping Windows 10 around past Oct 2025 could decrease trust because they announced this date years ago, so not following through on that could be seen as dishonest. But even that seems like a stretch.