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Microsoft has ended mainstream support for Windows 10 as of October 14, 2025, meaning devices that stay on Windows 10 will continue to run but will no longer receive feature, quality, or security updates from Microsoft unless they enroll in an Extended Security Updates (ESU) program or move to a supported platform. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched as Microsoft's flagship desktop operating system and remained widely used for more than a decade. Microsoft set a firm end-of-support...

Microsoft’s support calendar for Windows 10 reached a hard stop on October 14, 2025 — a decisive end to a decade-long run — but the operational, security, legal and environmental fallout will ripple for years as millions of devices, organizations and services manage a staggered, messy transition. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived in 2015 and became a household and enterprise standard. Microsoft announced that Windows 10, version 22H2 (and many LTSB/LTSC variants) would reach end of...

Activision says the Black Ops 7 beta delivered a meaningful drop in cheating, with Team RICOCHET reporting that nearly 99% of matches were cheater‑free by the end of the beta — a result the company frames as the strongest beta anti‑cheat performance in Call of Duty history. Background Call of Duty has been locked in a protracted arms race with cheat developers for years: blatant aimbots, wallhacks, and resilient cheat marketplaces have repeatedly disrupted public matches and frustrated the...

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-1 is the company’s first wholly in‑house text‑to‑image generator, positioned as a photorealism‑focused, low‑latency model built to slot into Copilot and Bing Image Creator — but the announcement raises as many practical and governance questions as it answers about architecture, data provenance, and real‑world behavior. Background Microsoft’s MAI program has been rolling out purpose‑built models this year (voice, conversation, and now image), and MAI‑Image‑1 is the next...

Oracle’s expanded Database@Azure program is moving from a connectivity play into a full‑scale multicloud platform for enterprise migrations and AI workloads, and major customers including Activision Blizzard are already using it to accelerate agentic AI initiatives by keeping Oracle’s high‑performance databases physically inside Azure datacenters while exposing them to Azure-native developer, analytics, and governance tooling. Background Oracle Database@Azure is the co‑located Oracle...

Microsoft's own research has pulled back the curtain on a growing, messy reality inside corporate IT estates: employees are freely using consumer AI assistants and chatbots—what Microsoft calls “Shadow AI”—and the scale of that unsanctioned use is wide enough to force security, legal, and productivity teams to rethink how workplaces adopt artificial intelligence. The vendor’s UK-focused report finds that roughly 71% of workers have tried unapproved AI tools at work and more than half use...

Microsoft has officially stopped shipping routine security updates and technical support for Windows 10 as of October 14, 2025 — yet roughly one in three Steam users remain on that operating system, a tension that will shape PC gaming, patching practices, and upgrade choices for the next 12–24 months. Background Windows 10’s mainstream servicing window closed on October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft no longer provides feature updates, quality fixes, or free security updates for...

Microsoft Azure has brought the industry’s rack‑scale AI arms race into production with what it describes as the world’s first large‑scale production cluster built on NVIDIA’s GB300 NVL72 “Blackwell Ultra” systems — an ND GB300 v6 virtual machine offering that stitches more than 4,600 Blackwell Ultra GPUs together with NVIDIA Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand to support the heaviest OpenAI‑class inference and reasoning workloads. Background / Overview Azure’s announcement frames the ND GB300 v6 family...

Microsoft will stop delivering routine security and quality updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025—but a one‑year lifeline called the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program can keep eligible PCs receiving critical and important security patches through October 13, 2026, and many home users can claim that year at no cash cost by following the in‑Windows enrollment flow. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and has been broadly supported for a decade. Microsoft’s...

Space42’s decision to list its AI‑powered geospatial intelligence platform, GIQ, on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace is a watershed moment for downstream Earth‑observation (EO) services — one that materially lowers procurement friction for governments, researchers and enterprises while raising urgent questions about sovereignty, auditability and vendor dependence. Background Space42 — the ADX‑listed UAE space technology group created by the 2024 merger of Bayanat and Yahsat — has spent the...

Windows 10 has reached its official finish line: Microsoft stops mainstream OS servicing on October 14, 2025, and with that date comes a set of practical choices, hidden costs, and lessons about how technology becomes obsolete — intentionally or otherwise. Background Windows 10 launched in 2015 and became a decade‑long workhorse for homes, schools and enterprises. Microsoft’s lifecycle policy has been explicit: products are supported for a finite window, after which vendor maintenance and...

If your Windows 11 PC feels sluggish, a focused cleanup and a handful of practical tweaks will usually deliver the biggest performance gains without buying new hardware—this guide walks through 12 easy, high-impact changes to speed up Windows 11, explains why they work, and flags the risks to avoid so you don’t trade stability for a tiny boost. Background / Overview Windows installs, updates, and everyday use create a steady accumulation of temporary files, old update leftovers, unused apps...

Microsoft’s latest move to keep Windows 10 machines safer for another year is less a rebranding than a pragmatic extension: the company is offering a time‑boxed, security‑only bridge that delivers critical and important patches to eligible Windows 10 devices through October 13, 2026, while steering most users toward Windows 11 or other long‑term solutions. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and has powered hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide. The platform reaches a scheduled...

Windows 10’s official support ended on October 14, 2025, and the conversation about “Windows 12” has moved from speculative headlines into strategic planning for consumers, businesses, and IT teams — yet Microsoft itself has not formally shipped a product called Windows 12 and appears to be advancing many next‑generation features under the Windows 11 umbrella instead. Background / Overview Microsoft’s product messaging in 2024–2025 emphasized two parallel strategies: evolve Windows 11...

Microsoft’s decade-long maintenance cycle for Windows 10 ends today, October 14, 2025, when routine, free security updates, feature updates and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions stop — leaving millions of machines functioning but increasingly exposed unless their owners take one of three practical routes: upgrade to Windows 11 if eligible, enroll in Microsoft’s time‑boxed Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or migrate to an alternative operating system...

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) has moved from fragmented program data to an AI-powered, conversational analytics assistant — glAIser — built on a unified lakehouse called Glaser 360 running on Microsoft Azure. The system centralizes disparate health-program records, uses Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake for ingestion and storage, transforms and models program data with Azure Databricks, and applies a supervised retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline that...

Microsoft has announced MAI-Image-1 — its first fully in‑house text‑to‑image model — positioning the company to generate photorealistic images at speed and to fold that capability directly into Copilot and Bing Image Creator as part of a broader push away from exclusive dependence on third‑party models. Background / Overview Microsoft’s announcement of MAI-Image-1 marks a deliberate inflection point in the company’s AI strategy: rather than relying entirely on externally sourced imaging...

Just over a decade after its debut, Microsoft has formally ended mainstream support for Windows 10 — a watershed moment that changes the maintenance, security and upgrade calculus for hundreds of millions of PCs around the world. October 14, 2025 is the final day Microsoft will deliver routine security patches, feature updates and standard technical assistance for consumer Windows 10 editions unless a device is enrolled in the company’s time‑boxed Extended Security Updates (ESU) program...

Microsoft’s announcement that Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions for qualified UAE organizations will be processed in‑country marks a significant inflection point for public‑sector AI adoption, pairing the firm’s generative capabilities with local data residency, reduced latency, and regulatory alignment designed to accelerate practical deployments across government and regulated industries. Background The UAE has pursued an explicit, high‑profile AI and digital transformation strategy for...

Microsoft’s announcement that Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions will be processed in‑country for qualified UAE organizations marks a significant step in the Gulf’s push to reconcile rapid AI adoption with strict data residency and regulatory expectations, and it could materially accelerate public‑sector use of generative AI while reshaping procurement and governance practices across the region. Background Microsoft said it will enable local processing and storage of Microsoft 365 Copilot...