Microsoft has confirmed that it will use security updates — or more accurately, the refusal to serve them to customers — as the stick to keep businesses in line with Windows 10’s accelerated tempo of feature and functionality upgrades.

Experts had assumed that the Redmond, Wash. company would threaten Windows 10 users with a no-patches policy if they didn’t keep up with the OS’s constant updates and upgrades. Microsoft has often told customers that if they didn’t do A or B or Y or Z — like migrate to Windows 8.1 Update or dump Internet Explorer 8 — they would not receive future vulnerability fixes.

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