Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points

Microsoft has found a new use for Reward Points – and another incentive to upload everything you hold dear to someone else's servers.

You know the drill by now. Windows 10 is approaching its end of life (although the special LTSC edition has years to go, and we told you how to get it a couple of months ago). In April last year, The Register described the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, and then in October when the scheme was extended to individual consumers for a bargain-tastic $30 for one year.

Now the company is widening the ESU entry criteria. A new blog post by consumer marketing veep Yusuf Mehdi lays out three ways for consumers to get with the program:

An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard ...