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The looming end of free Windows 10 updates has thrown millions of users into a narrow set of choices — upgrade, pay for temporary coverage, or keep running an increasingly risky and unsupported system — and a new legal challenge has already framed that corporate lifecycle decision as a public‑interest problem. Background Windows 10 reached millions of desktops and laptops over the last decade and has been Microsoft's workhorse consumer OS since 2015. Microsoft publicly fixed October 14, 2025...

Microsoft’s decision to end routine security updates and technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has suddenly turned from a calendar footnote into a full‑blown crisis for millions of users — and the fallout is only getting messier as Microsoft’s one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, staggered app servicing promises, market share shifts, and even a state‑court lawsuit collide in the final months before the cutoff. Background / Overview Windows 10’s official...

Microsoft’s decision to stop issuing routine updates for Windows 10 in mid‑October has left millions of users facing a sudden, calendar‑driven security cliff — a shift that is already drawing consumer advocates, legal challenges, and frantic migration planning across homes, small businesses, and public institutions. Background Microsoft’s official lifecycle schedule fixes October 14, 2025 as the end of mainstream support for Windows 10: after that date, Home and Pro editions will no longer...

Microsoft’s latest messaging to Windows 10 users turns a well-known lifecycle milestone into an explicit sales and migration push: with October 14, 2025 confirmed as the end-of-support date for Windows 10, Microsoft is urging affected users to upgrade — and increasingly, to buy Copilot+ PCs, many of which are Arm-based — while offering a limited, conditional Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge for those who cannot or will not move immediately. Background / Overview Microsoft has...

Microsoft’s decision to end routine security and quality updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has moved from a distant calendar note to an immediate operational crisis for millions of households and small organizations — and the deadline is now less than a month away for readers who still rely on Windows 10. Background Microsoft introduced Windows 10 in 2015 with the promise of a long lifecycle and steady servicing. That lifecycle now reaches a formal cutoff: October 14, 2025. On that...

Microsoft’s August preview update for Windows 11 version 24H2 — shipped as KB5064081 — introduced a regression that prevents many desktop applications from playing DRM‑protected video and broadcast content, producing black screens, copyright‑protection errors, and frozen streams for users of Blu‑ray, DVD and digital‑TV software. Background / Overview Microsoft released an optional non‑security preview for Windows 11 24H2 on August 29, 2025 (delivered in preview as KB5064081, OS build...

Microsoft’s deadline for Windows 10 updates has become a hard calendar: after October 14, 2025, the company will stop shipping routine security patches, feature updates, and standard technical support for most Windows 10 editions — a cut‑off that leaves millions of home users, small businesses, schools, and public services facing immediate, concrete choices about upgrades, extended security options, or continued operation with increasing risk. Background Windows 10 arrived in 2015 as...

Microsoft is quietly restoring native video wallpapers to Windows 11 — a DreamScene‑style capability discovered in Insider preview builds that lets ordinary video files play as looping desktop backgrounds without third‑party tools. Background Windows has flirted with animated desktop backgrounds before. In 2007 Microsoft shipped DreamScene as part of Windows Vista Ultimate, allowing WMV/MPG clips (and specially configured AVI files) to run behind icons and windows. That experiment was...

Microsoft’s decision to end free updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has shifted from a future milestone to an immediate crisis for millions of users, leaving consumers, small businesses and IT teams scrambling to secure aging PCs, evaluate migration paths, and weigh the environmental and financial costs of a forced platform change. Background Windows 10 launched in 2015 and for a decade has been the backbone of countless home and business PCs. Microsoft’s lifecycle policy has long...

Microsoft’s scheduled end-of-support for Windows 10 is now a matter of weeks away, and the fallout is exposing a tangle of technical, legal, and practical problems that leave millions of users scrambling for a safe migration path — or paying to buy time. Background Microsoft has set a firm end-of-support date for mainstream Windows 10 editions: October 14, 2025. On that date Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, feature and quality fixes, and standard technical support...

If the time zone control in Windows is greyed out or refuses to change, the result is more than a minor annoyance — calendar entries, scheduled tasks, VPN certificates, and secure websites can all break when system time is wrong. This feature-focused guide explains why Windows sometimes won’t let you change the time zone, walks through every practical fix (from quick Settings toggles to deep repairs), and evaluates the risks and trade‑offs so you can restore accurate timekeeping without...

Microsoft is quietly testing native animated video wallpapers in Windows 11 Insider builds, a modern revival of the Vista-era DreamScene that lets users set common video files (MP4, MKV, MOV and more) as looping desktop backgrounds — but the capability is experimental, hidden behind an Insider flag, and carries real-world tradeoffs for battery, compatibility, and enterprise management. Background / Overview Windows Vista shipped an official experiment in animated wallpapers called Windows...

Microsoft’s DevDays Asia 2025 framed this year’s debate in stark terms: the industry has moved from “AI-ready” to an AI agent era that will reshape how software is built, deployed, and operated. Major Microsoft voices — from product leaders to region heads — used the Taipei stage to accelerate an urgent narrative: agents are not niche research toys but a platform-level shift requiring new developer tooling, identity and governance controls, and a rethink of enterprise application...

Microsoft has set a hard line: mainstream security updates for Windows 10 and for on‑premises Office suites including Office 2016 and Office 2019 end on October 14, 2025 — but the story doesn’t stop there. Consumers and small businesses face a narrow set of official escape ramps (a one‑year consumer ESU for Windows 10, paid multi‑year ESUs for commercial customers, and a migration to Microsoft 365 or newer Office releases), while third‑party vendors such as ACROS Security’s 0patch are...

Microsoft has quietly folded a new, context-aware AI teammate directly into Teams channels: Channel Agent, an AI-powered assistant that adopts a channel’s name, ingests channel conversations and meetings, generates Loop-formatted status reports, and can be invited into meetings and group chats to summarize, schedule, and track work. Launched into Teams Public Preview, Channel Agent is positioned as a collaboration-first extension of Microsoft 365 Copilot—built to act as a project concierge...

Microsoft’s deadline is unambiguous: Windows 10 stops receiving security updates on October 14, 2025 — and yet, telemetry from the security vendor Kaspersky shows that, across its monitored sample, more than half of all PCs are still running Windows 10 with only a third on Windows 11, leaving millions of devices exposed the moment Microsoft’s monthly patches stop. Background / Overview Windows 10 was released in 2015 and has been the default desktop operating system for a decade, but...

Microsoft’s personalization team appears to be answering a long-standing user request: native video wallpapers — a modern take on the old DreamScene feature from the Windows Vista era — are now visible in recent Windows 11 Insider preview builds, but they remain experimental, hidden behind feature flags, and subject to change. Background DreamScene, nostalgia, and why this matters today Windows DreamScene debuted as an “Ultimate Extras” addition for Windows Vista that allowed video clips to...

Last week’s public furor over Microsoft’s planned shutdown of Windows 10 support crystallized into two clear facts: the end-of-support date is fixed, and consumer groups are asking the company to change course. The practical consequences are unambiguous — after October 14, 2025, mainstream security updates and feature servicing for Windows 10 Home and Pro will stop unless devices enroll in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program or users migrate to supported platforms. This...

Apple’s macOS 26 “Tahoe” is the most persuasive Mac update I’ve seen in years — and as a longtime Windows enthusiast, that hesitation matters. Tahoe’s Liquid Glass redesign, deeper Apple Intelligence integration, and an unusually practical set of Continuity improvements make it less a cosmetic update and more a meaningful re-think of how Apple wants macOS to fit into a multi‑device life. The features Apple highlighted at WWDC and the hands‑on impressions since then suggest Tahoe isn’t just...

Microsoft Teams now includes a dedicated Channel Agent — an AI-powered, productivity-focused assistant that lives inside a Teams channel, autonomously handling meeting recaps, task tracking, Planner integration, Loop report generation, and other routine coordination work so teams can spend less time on follow-up and more time on actual work. Background Microsoft continues to embed generative AI across Microsoft 365, moving beyond single-user Copilots toward team-centered agents that act as...