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Windows 11 keeps pushing AI onto your desktop — Copilot in the taskbar, Copilot in Office, and now a separate Microsoft 365 Copilot app — and for many users that feels like unwanted bloat. If you’d rather a clean, AI‑free Windows, this article walks through everything you need to know to hide, disable, or remove Copilot from a single PC or across a fleet, explains the technical tradeoffs, and flags what to watch for as Microsoft continues to change how Copilot is deployed and managed...

Microsoft has quietly begun inviting a subset of Windows users to test experimental AI features through a new opt‑in program called Windows AI Labs, an in‑OS pilot that first surfaced as a sign‑up prompt inside Microsoft Paint and which Microsoft describes as a “pilot acceleration program for validating novel AI feature ideas on Windows.” This marks a notable shift in how Microsoft stages pre‑release AI experiments: rather than relying solely on traditional Insider rings or server‑side...

Microsoft will stop issuing routine security and feature updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, leaving millions of PCs exposed unless users upgrade to Windows 11, enroll in Microsoft’s limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or move to another platform — and the decision has triggered sharp criticism from consumer groups, environmental advocates, and security experts. Background / Overview Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and for a decade has been the dominant desktop operating...

Microsoft’s deadline for Windows 10 support is now unavoidable: on October 14, 2025 Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, feature patches, and technical support for the mainstream Windows 10 editions millions of people still run — and for many users the practical choices will be uncomfortable, costly, or both. Background Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and for a decade it has been the backbone of home PCs, small businesses, schools, and government systems around the world...

Windows 11’s Reserved Storage can feel like a hidden tax on small SSDs: useful for smooth updates, but frustrating when every gigabyte counts — and there are safe, supported ways to temporarily turn it off, reclaim space, and put it back when you’re done. Background Reserved Storage is an OS-managed allocation on the Windows system volume (usually C:) that Windows uses as a dedicated pool for servicing operations, update staging, temporary system files, and maintenance of optional features...

Microsoft will officially stop providing security updates, feature fixes, and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a hard deadline that forces millions of PCs into a decision: upgrade to Windows 11, buy new hardware, enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), or accept rising security and compatibility risk. Background Windows 10 has been the backbone of mainstream PC computing since its 2015 launch, and Microsoft has signalled this retirement date for some time...

Perplexity’s new Email Assistant launches a clear second act for the company — moving from an “answer engine” to an agent that acts inside Gmail and Outlook — and its arrival reshapes competition among AI assistants while creating plausible, short- and long-term ripple effects across AI stocks and AI-focused cryptocurrencies. Background / Overview Perplexity unveiled the Email Assistant as part of a broader push into agentic productivity: the assistant can triage incoming messages, draft...

Microsoft’s decision to stop routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has left millions of users facing an uncomfortable choice: upgrade to Windows 11 where possible, pay for a one‑year bridge of security patches, or continue running a system that will gradually become more attractive to attackers. Background Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and for a decade has been the backbone of countless home PCs, office desktops, and public‑sector machines. Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: on October 14, 2025, support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 — along with a host of related server products and legacy communications apps — will end, forcing organizations and consumers to choose between upgrading, paying for temporary lifelines, or running unsupported software with attendant security and compliance risks. Background Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar has long been predictable, but October 14, 2025 is a convergence point: support ends not only...

Microsoft’s hard deadline to stop routine Windows 10 updates on October 14, 2025 has moved from a lifecycle footnote to a real-world squeeze for millions of consumers, small businesses and public institutions — leaving a narrow set of imperfect choices: upgrade to Windows 11 where hardware allows, buy a short-term security bridge through Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU), replace otherwise-functional hardware, or accept rising exposure on unsupported systems. Background...

Microsoft has locked a firm cutoff: on October 14, 2025, mainstream support for Windows 10 (including version 22H2 for Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education and most IoT editions) ends — Microsoft will stop shipping routine monthly security updates, feature or quality fixes, and standard technical support for those editions unless you enroll in one of the company’s limited extension programs. Background / Overview Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and has been the dominant desktop platform for much of...

Microsoft’s decision to stop issuing routine security and feature updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has moved from a lifecycle footnote into a full‑blown operational and policy problem for millions of households, schools, small businesses, and public agencies — and a new state‑court lawsuit has crystallized the public backlash. Background / Overview Microsoft formally set October 14, 2025 as the end‑of‑support date for mainstream Windows 10 editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise...

The calendar is no longer an abstract deadline — Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and the practical consequences for anyone still running older systems are immediate, measurable, and in many cases expensive. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle schedule is unambiguous: once an operating system reaches its end-of-support date it will no longer receive feature updates, quality fixes, security updates, or technical assistance. For Windows 10 that date is October...

Title: Huawei’s R.I.S.E.: A Calculated Push to Put a Chinese Stamp on the Government Cloud — and Take on Azure, AWS Lede At a summit in Shanghai this month, Huawei formally unveiled “R.I.S.E,” a reference architecture for a National Government Cloud designed expressly for public-sector digital transformation. The move is both tactical and strategic: tactical in the sense that R.I.S.E packages technical guidance, deployment patterns and partner ecosystems for governments; strategic because...

Asda’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft marks a decisive moment in UK retail: the supermarket has doubled down on a cloud-first, AI‑driven strategy that names Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud backbone, creates a joint investment fund to accelerate in‑store and back‑office innovation, and commits to rolling Microsoft AI and developer tooling more deeply into operational workflows across the business. Background Asda’s renewed agreement with Microsoft builds on a commercial...

October 14, 2025, is the definitive cutoff for mainstream support of Windows 10 — a watershed moment that ends routine security patches, feature updates, and standard technical assistance for the consumer editions of Microsoft’s decade-old operating system and forces millions of users to choose between upgrading, paying for a temporary security bridge, or continuing on an increasingly risky, unsupported platform. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived in 2015 and anchored a stable era for...

Perplexity’s new Email Assistant lands as a practical, agentic layer for Gmail and Outlook — it can be CC’d into threads to draft replies in your voice, auto‑label and prioritize messages, and negotiate meetings end‑to‑end by checking availability, proposing times, and issuing calendar invites — but it’s gated behind the Perplexity Max tier and carries governance trade‑offs every IT team must evaluate before enabling inbox automation at scale. Background / Overview Perplexity announced...

The Salvation Army UK & Ireland’s recent adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a deliberate, user-centered push to reduce administrative burden and refocus staff time on frontline work—an evolution that combines secure Microsoft cloud foundations with careful change management, practical everyday use cases, and a roadmap toward agentic AI. The rollout is notable not only for its immediate productivity wins—drafting reports faster, translating communications, and easing emotional...

Microsoft’s cut‑off for Windows 10 updates has morphed from a distant lifecycle note into an urgent crisis for millions of PC owners, leaving a narrow set of imperfect choices: upgrade to Windows 11 where possible, enroll in a one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge with strings attached, replace hardware, or accept growing risk on unsupported systems. Background Windows 10 launched in 2015 and, after a decade of servicing under Microsoft’s Windows‑as‑a‑Service model, the company...

Microsoft’s decision to stop issuing security and feature updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, has shifted from a future warning to an immediate crisis for millions of users, leaving households, small businesses, and public institutions scrambling to choose between upgrading, paying for short-term safety, or continuing on unprotected systems that will become increasingly risky to operate. Background Microsoft announced that Windows 10 (all mainstream editions) will reach end of...