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No, if you're in the EU you get 1 year updates free.
Microsoft has already made this available many months ago to US and the rest of the world, but required the weird MS login and settings backup to OneDrive. This is against EU rules, and the ruling that it isn't ok came like a month ago or so. Since then Ms has been scrambling to make this possible, but I know many people who didn't have the option even a week ago.
If you're in the US or most of the world (but not EU), you can enable 1 year of updates by logging in with Ms account + backing up settings once per OneDrive. This enables updates, and you can instantly undo both things again, which won't undo the update status.