Thursday, April 4th 2024
Windows 10 Security Updates to Cost $61 After 2025, $427 by 2028
Microsoft Windows 10 is an operating system quite a few people don't want to upgrade from, and some don't even consider the move to Windows 11 an upgrade. This is especially true for businesses or other organizations that aren't sold on Windows 11. Microsoft already has a retirement plan in place, which sees the company discontinue regular security updates for the operating system on October 14, 2025, but you can keep getting these updates beyond that date, for a price.
Under the Extended Security Updates (ESU) plan for Windows 10, you can purchase a year's worth regular "patch Tuesday" security updates at $61, and keep Windows 10 alive till October 2026. Here's where it gets crazy—the price of ESU doubles each year. The October 2026 to October 2027 leg will cost you $122. This doubles again the following year, with the final October 2027 to October 2028 leg costing $244. If you plan on keeping your Windows 10 through till 2028, it will cost you a total of $427 for the three years, per machine. ESU licenses resemble the OS's main license—you either buy them electronically through the Microsoft Store or Windows 365; or as 25-digit codes in retail.
Source:
PC World
Under the Extended Security Updates (ESU) plan for Windows 10, you can purchase a year's worth regular "patch Tuesday" security updates at $61, and keep Windows 10 alive till October 2026. Here's where it gets crazy—the price of ESU doubles each year. The October 2026 to October 2027 leg will cost you $122. This doubles again the following year, with the final October 2027 to October 2028 leg costing $244. If you plan on keeping your Windows 10 through till 2028, it will cost you a total of $427 for the three years, per machine. ESU licenses resemble the OS's main license—you either buy them electronically through the Microsoft Store or Windows 365; or as 25-digit codes in retail.
84 Comments on Windows 10 Security Updates to Cost $61 After 2025, $427 by 2028
Was this supposed to be “quite a few people don’t want to upgrade from”?
Anyway, this is a fairly standard MS procedure. All moaning aside, all who are interested in continuing to use Windows will eventually go to 11 (or 12, when that inevitably hits). Paying to stay on 10 is something only some enterprise customers will choose for mission critical PCs.
I use 11 pro but really it takes quite a bit to get it into usable state for myself anyway
I got it down to two utility to do one thing each really and that is explorer patcher to show all apps instead of the silly ass default start menu bs
I did add another utility recently to kill windows update service from turning back on seems to work pretty well so far
Windows Update Blocker v1.8
Other than those two and boat load of reg files from Brink on 11forum and W1zzard hehe I can use the 11 bloated pos MS says is so good lol
10 needed less work for sure.
So not if as if it a choice, unless the PC supports Windows 11 than I see why not upgrade to it.
Recent Windows 11 have a lot of improvement as compare with previous releases.
I am using Intel 9th CPU and have move from Windows 10 to 11 23H2.
Windows 10 will be 10 (kek) years old in next year, as far as I am concerned 10 (kill me) years of support is pretty good.
Although, we all knew this was coming.7th Gen (Kaby Lake) should be supported by Windows 11 as long as you have a TPM. Bought my mom a i7-7500U laptop back then and it is fully supported.
Looks like I'm full Linux user in a few years. This new AI-thingy requirement doesn't feel good either. And I have always bought my windows licences.
And the 10 years of support has an asterisk, because LTSC branches are gonna keep receiving support until 2027/2029/2032, depending on your specific variant of LTSC
I built the PC in my profile specs in July 2016 using a ROG motherboard released late 2015, and don't have a TPM. "Just upgrade bro" is destroyed when that's a moderate timeframe for PC ownership, especially given that 2000-series GPUs still dominate Steam hardware surveys.
I intend to upgrade to AM5 this summer, but with the recent earthquake I wouldn't be surprised if retailers surge-price the parts out of my range for lulz.I think you're misconstruing people annoyed by the requirements to use 11 as opposed to 11 itself.
Anyone saying Sky/Kaby Lake are perfectly functioning hardware that should have happily hummed along for a decade as people's daily driver have a valid point - especially considering how Intel stagnated and sold 4 core CPUs for far too long. Intel wasn't exactly innovating before Ryzen came along.
I am not one of those people. I am a person that says the economy hasn't been doing people great favors over the last 7 years, and outside of PC enthusiast forums where upgrading is the norm, regular people with thin wallets not having a TPM does not surprise me.
And now, we just let hundreds of millions of machines go unprotected.
Sure, MS, sure.
(and people liked XP more mostly because Vista was such a hardware hog in comparision, "what do you mean 512MB RAM is not enough, what BS is this?" and that OEMs sold woefully underpowered systems to the point of making the Vista badge a curse, plus Old Stable is usually preferable to New Stable-Ish which makes sense and Windows 7 was announced not long after Vista was announced so Vista was never all that necessery)