So today, the company waved the white flag and announced new free enrollment options for the ESU program, along with a description of the steps customers will need to follow to sign up. Anyone willing to try out Microsoft's cloud based Windows Backup or spend a few minutes per day with the Bing search engine over the course of a week can avoid the $30 tariff and get that subscription for free. The news was buried in yet another long winded post on the Windows Blog that sings the praises
