{"id":95634,"date":"2025-09-26T08:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/microsoft-agrees-to-11th-hour-win-10-end-of-life-concessions-the-register\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:55:36","slug":"microsoft-agrees-to-11th-hour-win-10-end-of-life-concessions-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/microsoft-agrees-to-11th-hour-win-10-end-of-life-concessions-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft will give customers within the European Financial Space no-strings prolonged assist for the soon-to be-EOL Home windows 10.<\/p>\n

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Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates<\/h2>\n

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In October last year<\/a>, customers globally have been informed that they may get a 12 months of prolonged safety updates after the October 14 2025 sundown date for Home windows 10 assist, in the event that they’re ready to pay a one-off $30 payment (native charges apply). Then, in June this 12 months, Microsoft offered a “free” option<\/a> \u2013 if prospects coughed up Microsoft Reward Factors or used Home windows Backup to sync their settings to the cloud.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Luxembourg and Brussels-based client rights group Euroconsumers determined that this was not adequate. In July it wrote to Redmond<\/a> [PDF] to argue that the coverage was not consistent with the Digital Markets Act or the Digital Content material Directive. Or the EU’s sustainability targets, come to that.<\/p>\n

This has prompted an obvious rethink at Microsoft, revealed in correspondence between Microsoft and Euroconsumers, and flagged by Tweakers<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

Within the newest letter to Microsoft, Euroconsumers’ head of litigation, Marco Scialdone, states<\/a> [PDF]: “We’re happy to be taught that Microsoft will present a no-cost Prolonged Safety Updates (ESU) choice for Home windows 10 client customers within the European Financial Space (EEA).”<\/p>\n

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