Microsoft Extends Security Updates for Windows 10 Beyond 2025 (for a Price)

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We don't know how much it will cost for consumers yet, but this marks the first time Microsoft will offer extended security updates for individual users, not just corporate clients.

 

Same thing they did with Windows 7. I mean for corporate enterprise clients it makes sense in some instances but for the average home users,  not so much. MS is clawing for as many dollars as they can get all while trying to figure out how to push forward their primary goal which is to make the Windows OS a subscription service. 

The issues they are having is the tied the current iteration of Windows to hardware TPM that only newer machines have. In the economic climate we are in right now many folks are not going to drop the cash to purchase a new PC and the users who only need lower end PCs aren't going to give MS the fee for updates past the EoS date as it will, if they follow suit with Windows 7, cost as much as a low end big box store PC.

The Windows 7 extended support package for corporate customers was 50-200 dollars per device, however you had to have the Enterprise version of Windows 7 running on the PC. If you wanted to extend your Pro version it was more. It was dependant on how many PCs you were extending the updates for as to which price tier you fell in. regular old Home versions of the software could not be extended even if it was being used in a business environment.

I can see no one in the private market extending the service / patch plans for a PC at their homes and the only way to force the upgrades would to make the OS non-functionable past a certain date which would open MS to a huge lawsuit. Heck small businesses dont upgrade their OS software or hardware until forced to and then lose it when they get pricing to do so. I had a client last week that we provide IT services to including local and cloud data backup to. Their backups were failing so I rode over to their office only to find that the local backup was running to a removable disk but no longer replicating to the cloud. Why you ask? Because the OS on their server was friggin Small Business Server 2011! That went EoL Jan. 14th 2020 and the latest update for the client that replicated the backups would not run on the ancient OS.

Some folks will never learn. I sent them a quote to replace the server since it was old as sin as well, the firewall that died (the simply plugged the internet feed straight into the switch and didn't call anyone.), and access points because for some strange reason the Wi-Fi they were using would not allow access to their data on the domain. (They were using the Wi-Fi from the Spectrum router.)

I wish them luck with this but yeah, I hope they dont expect much.