Question I may be building a new system soon, but not "cutting edge"

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Win10 is EOL in 14 months, although you'll be able to pay for extended support.

Consumer pricing hasn't been announced yet. My guess is the cost will be $25/$50/$100 for the three years, respectively.

MS already announced business pricing: $61/$122/$244 .

I realize people don't like Win11 Spamvertisement edition, but there's not a whole lot of choice going forward IMO.

It's official. Consumers can pay $30 for one year, and one year only, of extended support for Win10:

Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year

Microsoft really wants people to move to Windows 11.

www.theverge.com

They should just charge the same $30 for years 2 and 3. That's just free money (and they are supporting enterprises for 3 extra years anyway).

I imagine some clever hackers will figure out how to make the security patches freely available to all takers (like the old WinXP POSReady situation).

 

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