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Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30

Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

hatred against Microsoft aside, this change doesn’t surprise me. With forcing an account, it allows them to tie your support subscription directly to an account instead of having it be a product key, which is annoying for both the user and the agent in trying to validate whether or not it’s in support or not.

Like, I hate the mentality of needing to use Microsoft services to use a Microsoft system, but this is one of their decisions that I can somewhat understand, it makes it far easier for subscription based setups.

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Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The article explicitly pointed out this extended security patching does not cover support

It’s easy to agree with Microsoft when you don’t bother reading the article and just make up a reason to support their decision

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- Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’m sorry, but you’re misreading what they mean by support in that article because I did read it. They’re still gonna give support regarding he ESU program as a whole(otherwise they would be sued for fraud), which includes installation, activation, and regressions of the program. What they’re not going to be providing is general technical support which is a different beast, If you would like more information, you can read about it here as well.
  
  It’s easy to blindly hate something When you only see what you want to see…
  
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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There are a few ways of doing that without harvesting PII . This is just naked disdain for people not hooking up for oneChive overages.

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- Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s a different system if I understand the article correctly. It looks like its just a Microsoft account not a one drive sub. I’m expecting they are just going to only allow 10 computers per account and then when it hits max it stops getting support on new systems (since updates are involved I doubt they will let you remove devices like with the current activation system). Now I do expect that the payment is the same system, and considering their dark tactics at trying to get you to subscribe and update, I do assume this is going to make it easier to accidentally spend money or subscribe to other services though.
  
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