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Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update

From "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Subject Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update
Date 2025-07-27 05:00 +0100
Organization 255 software
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On 2025/7/27 4:22:5, ...winston wrote:
> J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>> As with XP and 7, I have no intention of worrying about the cessation of 
>> "support" (I don't feel "supported" anyway). But of course unlike 
>> previous versions, AIUI "updates" in 10 can't be turned off, which 
>> implies - to me, anyway - the possibility that, maybe some years down 
>> the line, M$ would be able to kill off - stop working altogether - any 
>> 10 machine still online. Thoughts? (Including can it be blocked if I'm 
>> right.)
> 
> Keep in mind, ESU for corporate Win10 is available for 3 yrs(2025, 2026, 
> 2027 purchase, support ending in Oct 2028). ESU for consumer editions 
> last 1 yr(2025, support ending in 2026)
> 
> Thus, any direction towards 'stop working' is quite a bit down the road 
> even for consumer.
> 
> 
That doesn't reassure me at all: surely, if they are planning any
"kill", it'd be "kill only those who haven't paid the exorbitant ESU fees".
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices." - William James

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