Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year

Posted by Bender on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:50PM
from the theregister.com dept.

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/13/microsoft-emails-windows-10-holdouts-fine-keep-your-old-pc-another-year/5270336

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Re:Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old... by while_true_ on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:26PM (#48915124)

Too late. My household's desktops and laptop are all on Debian/KDE Plasma linux. Glad I switched, I think Plasma is a better more customizable "windows" than Windows is.

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Re:Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old... by gnabgib on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:55PM (#48914914)

Discussion on the extension: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates (251 points, 19 days ago, 234 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675369

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Re:Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old... by conorcleary on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:10PM (#48915017)

Yea and Outlook threw it to Spam

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Re:Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old... by kgwxd on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @11:05PM (#48915760)

Dear MS, Not interested but, thank you so much for that push out the door a while back :) Tux is my Copilot now.

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Re:Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old... by N_Lens on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @03:26AM (#48917409)

Microsoft is going to continue it's anti-user approach since they haven't yet been punished for it. I think it's wise to eject from their ecosystem.

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