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  • Where to buy Windows 10 ESU for business?

    From Roger Blake@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 2 02:30:06 2025
    I'm working with some small businesses that want to purchase
    Win10 ESU for at least a year for their older PCs to give them
    some breathing space before replacement.

    After searching for quite a while I have not been able to find
    where to actually purchase Windows 10 ESU licenses for business.
    I have found that it's supposed to be available through Volume
    Licensing, which is now part of Microsoft 365 Admin. Can't find
    it anywhere in there, and using the MS 365 Admin site search
    function to find "ESU" or "Volume Licensing" doesn't come up
    with anything useful.

    I may well be missing something obvious, but is there a link that
    will go to the actual ESU for business purchase page, or a description
    of where it's hiding inside Microsoft 365 Admin?

    --
    Roger Blake

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  • From John C.@21:1/5 to Roger Blake on Tue Sep 2 04:19:58 2025
    On 25/09/01 07:30 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
    I'm working with some small businesses that want to purchase
    Win10 ESU for at least a year for their older PCs to give them
    some breathing space before replacement.

    After searching for quite a while I have not been able to find
    where to actually purchase Windows 10 ESU licenses for business.
    I have found that it's supposed to be available through Volume
    Licensing, which is now part of Microsoft 365 Admin.

    In case you didn't look here (but I'm betting you did):

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/licenses/manage-volume-licensing?view=o365-worldwide

    or:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/?view=o365-worldwide

    Can't find
    it anywhere in there, and using the MS 365 Admin site search
    function to find "ESU" or "Volume Licensing" doesn't come up
    with anything useful.

    I may well be missing something obvious, but is there a link that
    will go to the actual ESU for business purchase page, or a description
    of where it's hiding inside Microsoft 365 Admin?

    I hate it when M$ forces you to *click* *click* *click* etc. to get to
    some critical info you need. And they seem to delight in obscuring
    information like this.

    --
    John C. I filter crossposts, various trolls & dizum.com. Doing this
    makes this newsgroup easier to read & more on-topic. Take back the tech companies from India & industry from China.

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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to Roger Blake on Wed Sep 3 00:49:43 2025
    On 2025/9/2 3:30:6, Roger Blake wrote:
    I'm working with some small businesses that want to purchase
    Win10 ESU for at least a year for their older PCs to give them
    some breathing space before replacement.

    []

    Despite being one who really _hates_ the rolling update model M$ have
    now been operating for several years (with, as far as I'm concerned, the
    change from 10 to 11 just being part of that), I have to ask:

    Where have these companies been? It's not as if the change to 11 has
    been a secret for, I think, at least two years; if a company is using
    Windows for their business, surely they should have been planning for it
    as part of the rolling refresh they should be used to (for _business_
    purposes a sort of 3-year redundancy seems to be what we have to work
    with), rather than at this late stage in the game suddenly realising
    they need some "breathing space".

    (Of course, it's probably relevant that I have no idea what "ESR" is,
    but I don't think that changes my point, however much I hate having to
    make it.)--
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    interracial marriage was still illegal in 17 states in 1967.

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  • From Roger Blake@21:1/5 to ...winston on Wed Sep 3 00:37:05 2025
    On 2025-09-02, ...winston <[email protected]> wrote:
    For business(not consumer)the ESU is offered for Volume Licensing subscriptions and only via Cloud Service Providers beginning Sept 1.

    Specifically what "Cloud Service Providers"?

    Load this url
    <https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/24/stay-secure-with-windows-11-copilot-pcs-and-windows-365-before-support-ends-for-windows-10/>
    'Windows 10 Extended Security Updates: A bridge to your Windows 11 experience'

    Thanks, but still lacking details on where to purchase.

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    Roger Blake

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  • From Roger Blake@21:1/5 to John C. on Wed Sep 3 00:45:30 2025
    On 2025-09-02, John C. <[email protected]> wrote:
    I hate it when M$ forces you to *click* *click* *click* etc. to get to
    some critical info you need. And they seem to delight in obscuring information like this.

    It's like being caught in a maze of twisty little passages.

    It seems that Microsoft is really making this more difficult and obtuse
    than it needs to be. All they need to do is provide a link or links
    labeled "Purchase ESU here", but that would make things way too easy.

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    Roger Blake

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  • From Roger Blake@21:1/5 to J. P. Gilliver on Wed Sep 3 00:40:39 2025
    On 2025-09-02, J. P. Gilliver <[email protected]> wrote:
    Where have these companies been?

    They have been not heeding warnings about this from myself and other
    sources, and since ESU was announced by Microsoft they want to use
    that program to extend the life of their older PCs.

    --
    Roger Blake

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