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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/post-2025-windows-10-updates-for-businesses-start-at-61-per-pc-go-up-from-there/ [arstechnica.com]

For most people, Windows 10 will stop receiving critical security updates on October 14, 2025, roughly a decade after its initial release. For people using computers that can't upgrade to Windows 11 or organizations with dozens or hundreds of PCs to manage, Microsoft is making another three years of Extended Security Updates (ESUs) available, but only if you can pay for them. And the company is ready to start talking about pricing.

In a blog post published earlier this week [microsoft.com], Microsoft's Jason Leznek writes that the first year of ESUs will cost $61 per PC for businesses that want to keep their systems updated.

And as with the Windows 7 ESUs a few years ago, Microsoft says that the price will double each year—so the second year of ESUs will cost $122 per PC, and the third year will cost a whopping $244 per device.
[...]
Though Windows 11 launched in October of 2021 [arstechnica.com], its adoption has mostly stalled out this year, and Windows 10 remains the most widely used version of Windows by a substantial margin. Statcounter data says that Windows 10 runs on 69 percent [statcounter.com] of all Windows PCs worldwide and 67 percent of PCs in the US [statcounter.com], compared to about 27 and 29 percent for Windows 11 (respectively). The latest Steam Hardware Survey [steampowered.com] shows Windows 10 running on 54 percent of surveyed gaming PCs, compared to about 42 percent for Windows 11.

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