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Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2032 and is trivial to obtain and activate.

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> trivial to obtain and activate

i have never seen "trivial to obtain" and "LTSC" in the same sentance before.

please, do elaborate

It took a couple seconds on DuckDuckGo: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-...

okay, i should have been more specific. how would one activate an LTSC installation? last time i looked into it, you could not actually purchase a single LTSC license as an individual user.

https://massgrave.dev/

MS doesn't care about piracy at all. They'd rather let you pirate it than losing you by switching to Linux or Mac

Those are trial versions. You cannot fully activate them without doing the equivalent of a full OS install. You need to find a corporate partner and buy a whole bunch of regular Win 10/11 Pro licenses and you're eligible to get LTSC which costs a fair bit of money.

Can you give me the link I should forward to my parents? They're still on Windows 10 home and I don't think they're even aware that they'll need to either pay up or figure something else out this year.

Might as well use Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 at that point, supported until 2034. Been using as a daily driver since it came out last year, pretty much the same good experience as with the Windows 10 LTSC.

I don't expect third-party desktop application developers to continue supporting Windows 10 until 2034, given that the IoT Enterprise license agreement prohibits desktop use.

Which is not to say most applications won't continue to run, but it wouldn't surprise me if, say, Valve stopped supporting Steam on Windows 10 in five years or so, as they did with Windows <10 last year.

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