Windows 10 is officially unsupported starting next month… sort of. Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall (which it wrote itself), Microsoft has given Windows 10 holdouts an extra year of security updates, but you’ll need to pay for it or do some busywork to qualify —unless you live in some European countries, which have called baloney on that.

The Euroconsumers group alerted Microsoft (PDF) that its requirement for users to either turn on Windows Backup with an associated Microsoft account, spend a bunch of Microsoft Rewards points, or pay $30 to access those extra security updates was probably in violation of the Digital Markets Act of 2022 . This law forbids “gatekeeper” companies from limiting access to products or services based on conditions to other products from the same com

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