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Tearing your hair out because you can't sign up for Windows 10 extended updates? New patch fixes annoying bug and makes support to October 2026 available for all


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  • Windows 10 has a new update for August
  • It rolls out the offer of extended support until October 2026 to everyone
  • Microsoft has also fixed a bug that caused the sign-up process to crash

Windows 10's latest update is an important one in terms of the impending End of Life for the operating system, as it rolls out the offer of extended support (beyond October 2025) to all users – and fixes a bug that meant some people weren't able to successfully sign up for said offer.

Windows Latest noticed that the August update for Windows 10 (known as KB5063709) brings in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) option for everyone.

Some folks (a minority) have already had the ESU offer – which appears in the Windows Update panel – with a previous update, but the KB5063709 patch brings it to all Windows 10 PCs ahead of the ...


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