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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...

Microsoft has officially ended free standard support for Windows 10 today, October 14, 2025, closing a decade-long chapter in the PC era and forcing millions of users and organisations to choose between upgrading, buying time with Extended Security Updates, or moving to an alternative operating system. Background Windows 10 launched in July 2015 and became the dominant desktop operating system for households, businesses and public institutions over the following decade. Microsoft set a firm...

Japan’s new push to build a domestic AI industrial base for national security is both pragmatic and ambitious: officials say the upcoming national AI basic plan will explicitly prioritize home‑grown model development, incentives to attract and retain AI talent, accelerated chip and supercomputer projects, and tighter coordination between universities, research institutes and industry to reduce reliance on foreign providers that could pose supply‑chain or security risks. Background / Overview...

Today marks a watershed moment for the Windows ecosystem: Windows 10 reaches its official end of support, and if you want to keep receiving security updates on that machine you must enroll in the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) programme — now, not later. Background / Overview Microsoft’s long-running operating system lifecycle has arrived at a predictable, but consequential milestone: free, mainstream support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. That means routine security...

Windows Update’s driver automation is convenient — until a vendor-supplied driver causes instability, performance regressions, or compatibility problems. This feature piece walks through reliable, repeatable ways to stop a specific driver from updating on Windows 11 (Home and Pro), explains when each method is appropriate, and highlights the security and manageability trade-offs you must accept when blocking driver updates. Background / Overview Windows Update delivers cumulative OS patches...

Microsoft has officially ended free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a hard calendar cut-off that stops routine OS-level security patches, quality fixes and standard technical assistance for most consumer and commercial Windows 10 editions — but it does not make PCs instantly stop working. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched on July 29, 2015 and became the dominant desktop OS for a decade. Microsoft’s lifecycle policy set a finite maintenance window that now reaches its...

Microsoft has drawn a firm line: routine vendor support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025, and that technical cutoff changes the security, compatibility, and compliance calculus for millions of PCs worldwide. Background / Overview Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and spent a decade as Microsoft’s primary desktop operating system. The company set a fixed lifecycle for the product and — as announced in its lifecycle notices and repeated in public briefings — the last mainstream servicing date...

Microsoft has set a hard line: mainstream support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025 — and for users in the UAE that deadline changes what “safe to use” means for thousands of home PCs, school laptops and small-business desktops. The practical choices are straightforward but urgent: upgrade eligible machines to Windows 11, enroll qualifying devices in Microsoft’s temporary Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, replace unsupported hardware, or migrate to an alternative operating...

Microsoft has quietly begun previewing a small but meaningful enhancement to Copilot on Windows that lets the assistant open the exact Windows Settings page you need from a natural‑language chat prompt, cutting the hunt through nested menus and (in some cases) saving several clicks. Background Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has been evolving rapidly from a sidebar helper into a fuller, app‑based assistant that ties conversational AI to on‑device tasks and resources. The company has pushed...

Windows 10 reaches a hard milestone today: Microsoft stops mainstream servicing for the last consumer build, and every Windows 10 user who wants to remain protected must choose a path forward—upgrade, enroll in the limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, migrate to another OS, or accept growing risk. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar fixes October 14, 2025 as the formal end of servicing for Windows 10 (version 22H2 and specified LTSB/LTSC SKUs). After this date...

As of 14 October 2025, millions of Windows 10 machines will stop receiving security updates—and for organizations and individuals still running the OS that date is not a quiet deadline but a hard turning point that materially increases cyber risk, compliance exposure and (in many cases) the likelihood of insurance disputes. Microsoft will cease technical support, feature updates and, most critically, security patches for the mainstream Windows 10 channel after that date. The consequences are...

Microsoft’s push to make Windows feel more like a conversational, AI-driven operating system took a practical step forward this year: Copilot can now access and change Windows Settings so you can customize your PC using natural language. The new Settings agent — advertised as Windows’ first on-device agent optimized for Copilot+ PCs — allows users to type or speak what they want (“make my mouse pointer bigger,” “connect Bluetooth,” or “change my resolution to 1920×1080”) and receive an...

Microsoft’s decision to end free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has turned an already fraught upgrade conversation into an urgent migration for millions — and while the official free paths to Windows 11 are straightforward for eligible machines, Microsoft’s Upgrade Assistant (Windows 11 Installation Assistant) will actively refuse to proceed on computers that don’t meet strict hardware and firmware checks, leaving many users blocked unless they either change settings, add...

I booted an old Windows 10 PC, used it for a week, and then returned to my daily machine running Windows 11 — the result was not nostalgia but a clear checklist of progress and pain points. After living in both worlds for a short, practical stretch, the verdict is nuanced: Windows 11 brings meaningful UX and security upgrades that compound into a better day‑to‑day experience, yet Microsoft’s policy decisions and some UX regressions create real friction for long‑time Windows users. This piece...