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Microsoft Will Charge for Windows 10 Security Updates in 2025 (gizmodo.com)
submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Will this lead to pirated security patches? What a strange timeline.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago

This is absolutely nothing new, and the workaround is usually just a small registry tweak so Windows Update pulls from the extended support patches "channel". Same thing happened with Vista, 7, and 8.

Alternatively there are ways to download from the Windows Update servers using plenty of third party tools. It's a neccessity if you're going to streamline patches into your install media to save the post install mess of waiting for it to download and install all the updates that have come out since they first made the install .iso

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm pretty sure Microsoft has been patching pirated copies of Windows for decades at this point.