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One Year Isn’t Enough: We Demand Free Windows 10 Updates Until 2030 - Right to Repair Europe (repair.eu)

submitted 10 hours ago by octobersun@slrpnk.net to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 users in the European Economic Area (EEA) will get one more year of free updates if they log in with a Microsoft account. This is a win worth celebrating. Our campaigning, writing and chanting forced one of the world’s tech giants to act. That’s no small feat and a clear sign that we have power!

But let’s be honest: this is just a 1-year snooze button.

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Being forced to log in to a Microsoft account to get the year makes it not wortg celebrating at all. It is part of their long term plan to turn your OS into a SaaS platform that works for them instead of you.

[–] octobersun@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 hours ago

I mean, it's marginally better than having to pay or sign up to Backups or Rewards, but yeah, still not great.