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5. Night Photography Mick Sulley

6. The Seasons Bob Eagle

The overall winner this year was Bob Eagle with his Seasons photograph.

Finally, our thanks to Arthur for coming down and judging the entries and thanks to all those members who
participated this year and we look forward to what categories Bob comes up with this year.

Dave Robb

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates Promised for

Small Businesses and Home Users

Alan has found the following information regarding the end of life support for Windows 10. It may seem a
long way off at the moment but as we have seen in the past the cut off date for support of various products is
soon upon us.
Already common for enterprises, for the first time, individuals will also get the option to pay for extended
security updates for a Windows operating system that's out of support.

Windows 10 will stop getting free updates, including security fixes, after October 14, 2025; which is the offi-
cial end of support date. But there is good news for Windows 10 holdouts: In addition to the expected an-
nouncement that large organizations will be able to buy up to three years of Extended Security Updates for
Windows 10, small businesses and home users will be able to pay for up to three years of Extended Security
Updates for the OS.

What is Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates program?
When Microsoft software reaches end of support, that means it no longer gets monthly security updates, bug
fixes, new features, updates for any changes to time zones and daylight savings changes or technical support.
Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates program doesn’t replace all of those options; ESUs just provide the
monthly security updates from Windows Update and only cover what Microsoft classifies as critical or im-
portant vulnerabilities, which means no fixes for security issues you can mitigate without Microsoft making
changes to Windows. ESUs are available for three years after the end of support.

ESUs are common for Windows Server and server products like SQL Server. And ESUs have occasionally
been available for desktop versions of Windows; the Windows 7 ESUs didn’t end until January 2023.

You have to pay for ESUs with an annual subscription; in the past, that has meant having a volume license for
Windows with Software Assurance, like an Enterprise Agreement, Enterprise Agreement Subscription, En-
rollment for Education Solutions or Server and Cloud Enrollment. ESUs have also been available to enterpris-
es with SPLA or a Server Subscription.

What’s different this time is that individuals will be able to buy the annual ESU subscription for their Win-
dows 10 PCs.