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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Sep-2025 20:39:35 JST Kevin Beaumont

   Regulation works again - if you run Windows 10 in Europe, you will keep receiving extended security updates for free. No need to enable Windows Backup or jump through hoops.

   https://www.theverge.com/news/785544/microsoft-windows-10-extended-security-updates-free-europe-changes

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     � (utf_7@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Sep-2025 22:31:29 JST �

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     @GossiTheDog wait, do i understand correctly: before the ruling, microsoft said you can continue using windoews 10 and you also get updates for free but you have to enable the cloud backup thing?

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     Tyrone Slothrop (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Sep-2025 23:32:53 JST Tyrone Slothrop

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     @GossiTheDog according to the article, “forced” is wrong, and there’s no regulation behind this.

     The article talks about “the Euroconsumers group”, which to my knowledge is not a regulatory entity in the EU.

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     jjesse (jjesse@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 02:39:38 JST jjesse

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     @GossiTheDog When should a company be able to turn off support for an OS? Seems like it's been a long time coming they are turning off support for Windows 10. Is this a forever thing? Or come on move to something else?

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     jjesse (jjesse@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 02:47:57 JST jjesse

     @GossiTheDog ah so basically they can be like "cool windows 10 ends today anyways and there is nothing you can do about it..."

     I still don't understand why it's a big deal.