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

From "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com>
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 2025-07-26 23:32 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <10646ku$1kkq1$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <105vpu0$fgl$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <105vqbe$2mka$1@neodome.net> <k0ba8kl7j9d1to5ikdem469dpi1jd2h1km@4ax.com>

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micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:38:23 -0000 (UTC),
> Finnigan <fionnagain@eircom.net> wrote:
> 
>> Using <news:105vpu0$fgl$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>, Marion wrote:
>>
>>> I only skimmed it but there seems to be a catch...
>>> Maybe others know more about this... and can elucidate the rest of us.
>>
>> https://www.ghacks.net/2025/06/25/microsoft-makes-windows-10-esu-free-for-some-users-but-there-is-a-catch/
> 
> I have 300 points out of 1000 needed.  I have no idea where I got them
> or how to get  more.  Seems to me the $7 of skype money I'll never be
> able to use ought to be worth more than 700 points.
> 
> And Teams is in no way a substitute for Skype. YOu can only communicate
> with other people on Teams, and with Skype you could call any phone
> number in the world.  I think "Teams" refers to development teams,
> people paid to work on the same project.  How do they even have the
> nerve to call Teams a subsitute for Skype?
> 

It's only been 15 years since 'Rewards' have been available.
  - initially Bing Rewards in 2010, renamed/rebranded as Microsoft 
Awards in 2016(9 years ago).
  => rewards from the former carried over to the latter.

Accumulation of 1000 points was(is) an achievable goal, though for those 
who opted to not use Bing...the $30US one year rate(even with a required 
MSFT account) may be a reasonable option for some Win10 consumer devices 
instead of 'Rewards' or OneDrive Backup.



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Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-25 11:31 +0000
  Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Finnigan <fionnagain@eircom.net> - 2025-07-25 11:38 +0000
    Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-26 15:30 -0400
      Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2025-07-26 16:36 -0400
        Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-26 19:58 -0400
          Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2025-07-27 15:36 -0400
      Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-07-26 23:32 -0400
  Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-07-25 10:29 -0400
    Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-26 15:29 +0100
      Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-26 11:09 -0400
        Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-07-27 04:18 +0200
          Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-27 14:31 -0400
            Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-07-28 06:16 +0200
            Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-28 05:55 +0100
      Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-07-26 18:59 +0100
        Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-26 17:46 -0400
          Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-07-26 23:59 +0200
          Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-07-26 17:09 -0500
      Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-07-26 23:22 -0400
        Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-27 05:00 +0100
          Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-07-27 11:36 -0400
  Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-26 15:24 -0400
  Re: Starting July 24, 2025 Microsoft Confirms Free Windows Update Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-07-27 01:48 +0100

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