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California has taken a decisive — and deliberately calibrated — step into AI governance: Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 243 (SB 243), a first‑in‑the‑nation package of targeted safety guardrails for “companion” chatbots designed to protect minors, while simultaneously vetoing a more sweeping restriction that industry had vehemently opposed. Background / Overview California’s legislative action is the latest chapter in a yearlong scramble to define how democracies should manage the...

Microsoft’s surprise debut of an in‑house text‑to‑image generator — MAI‑Image‑1 — marks a notable inflection in the company’s AI strategy: it’s not just building more models, it’s building purposeful models tuned for product latency, cost, and creative control, and publicly touting performance claims that put speed and efficiency at the center of the story. Microsoft says MAI‑Image‑1 delivers photorealistic imagery while avoiding repetitive, generic stylization and that it can respond to...

Microsoft has turned the page: Windows 10 has reached official end-of-support on October 14, 2025, and that change reshapes security, upgrade paths and practical decisions for hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in July 2015 and ran as Microsoft’s mainstream desktop platform for a decade. Microsoft’s lifecycle policy for Windows 10 (version 22H2 and related SKUs) set a firm end-of-support date: after October 14, 2025 Microsoft will stop shipping...

Today Microsoft’s formal support for Windows 10 ends, and with it a decade-long product cycle closes while a far longer migration — technical, economic and social — accelerates across homes, schools and enterprises worldwide. This is not the dramatic, immediate “death” some headlines paint: Windows 10 machines will still boot, run apps and browse the web. What changes right away is simple and consequential: Windows 10 will no longer receive regular security patches, feature updates or...

After ten years as the backbone of desktop Windows, Windows 10’s era of free, routine vendor support ends today, October 14, 2025 — the operating system will no longer receive the monthly cumulative security and quality updates that kept millions of home and small-business PCs patched and safe. Microsoft has published a formal lifecycle notice and a consumer-focused Extended Security Updates (ESU) program designed as a short-term safety net, but the transition is messy: hardware-gated...

Windows 10 has reached the end of its supported lifecycle on October 14, 2025 — a firm vendor deadline that stops Microsoft’s routine OS security patches, feature updates, and standard technical assistance for mainstream Windows 10 editions unless a device is enrolled in a qualifying Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. Background / Overview Windows 10 shipped in July 2015 and served as Microsoft's mainstream desktop platform for a decade. Microsoft declared that Windows 10, version...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has just graduated from helpful chat box to a cross‑account productivity engine: an October Insider preview adds Copilot Connectors — opt‑in links to OneDrive, Outlook, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar and Google Contacts — and a one‑click Document Creation & Export workflow that turns chat responses into editable Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF files. Background Microsoft has been steadily moving Copilot from a context‑sensitive helper to an OS‑level...

Microsoft’s cut-off for Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025 forces organisations into a near-term decision: upgrade, buy temporary protection, or knowingly accept rising security, compliance and operational risk. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and has been the corporate desktop backbone for a decade, but Microsoft has now set a firm end-of-support date: October 14, 2025. From that day forward, Microsoft will no longer issue routine feature updates, quality fixes or the...

Microsoft has stopped providing routine security updates and standard support for Windows 10 as of October 14, 2025, creating an immediate exposure window for any PC that remains on the platform without enrollment in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) programme. Background Windows 10 launched in July 2015 and has been a dominant desktop OS for much of the last decade. Microsoft set a fixed lifecycle endpoint for the product: routine operating‑system security and quality servicing...

Today’s calendar flip marks the end of Microsoft’s mainstream servicing for Windows 10 — a decade-long chapter that officially closes on October 14, 2025 — but for most users it’s the beginning of a long, staggered migration and risk-management process rather than an instant shutdown. Support-ending does not mean machines stop working, but it does mean ordinary Windows 10 Home and Pro installations will no longer receive routine OS-level security and quality updates from Microsoft unless...

Microsoft’s routine security updates for Windows 10 stop today — October 14, 2025 — and millions of devices are now at elevated risk unless owners act immediately to upgrade, enroll in Extended Security Updates, or take other protective steps. Background / Overview After a decade of servicing, Microsoft has formally ended mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. That means Microsoft will no longer provide the monthly cumulative security patches, feature updates, or standard...

When you unpack a new Windows 11 laptop or desktop, the operating system often arrives with more than just the OS: promotional games, trial utilities, vendor utilities, and background helpers that quietly launch at startup. Removing that clutter the right way—not hastily or with blind script runs—can free storage, shorten boot times, and reduce background noise, but it also introduces risks if done incorrectly. This feature explains what to remove, how to remove it safely, which tools to...

Microsoft’s MAI‑Image‑1 is now the company’s first image‑generation model built entirely in‑house, and Microsoft is already testing it publicly on LMArena as it prepares to fold the model into Copilot and Bing Image Creator—a milestone that signals a deliberate move away from exclusive reliance on third‑party imaging engines and toward a vertically integrated MAI (Microsoft AI) stack. Background / Overview Microsoft’s MAI program has expanded rapidly during 2025, moving from early in‑house...

Microsoft’s new Benchmarks feature in the Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights turns AI adoption into a measurable, comparable workplace metric — and it raises as many governance questions as it promises productivity answers. Background Microsoft launched Viva in 2021 as a suite of employee‑experience tools tied to Microsoft 365 and Teams; the Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights collects adoption, readiness, impact and sentiment signals to help organizations measure the effect of Copilot...

Microsoft’s new MAI‑Image‑1 landed as a surprise — not for the novelty of another image generator, but because it’s a fully in‑house text‑to‑image system from Microsoft AI that already ranks among the top models on public leaderboards and is being lined up for integration into Copilot and Bing Image Creator. This is a clear strategic shift: Microsoft is moving from stitching partner models into its products toward owning a purpose‑built imaging stack that prioritizes speed, practical...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly shifted from fast-answer assistant toward a classroom-ready study companion with the rollout of a new Study and Learn mode — a change that bundles step-by-step tutoring, progress tracking, and one-click practice generation into the same Copilot workspace just as students return to classes. The update turns quick, flat responses into scaffolded learning sessions, lets you upload notes or PDFs and instantly convert them into quizzes or flashcards, and preserves...

Archive360’s announcement of a strategic integration with Microsoft to deliver agentic AI–driven eDiscovery and compliance capabilities signals a decisive step toward making archived corporate communications both discoverable and legally defensible under AI-powered workflows. The collaboration pairs Archive360’s governed data cloud with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models and the broader Purview compliance stack to let investigators use natural‑language prompts to detect possible...

Archive360’s new collaboration with Microsoft bets the future of corporate investigations on making archived data both discoverable and AI-actionable, marrying Archive360’s governed data cloud with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI and Purview compliance stack to deliver what the vendors describe as agentic, natural‑language driven eDiscovery and compliance workflows. Background Archive360 has spent the last two years positioning its platform as a “governed AI‑ready data cloud” that can ingest...

If you’ve been on the fence about leaving Windows, now is the moment to at least try Linux — and not just because it’s trendy. Microsoft’s official end-of-support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, combined with increasingly aggressive account and hardware requirements in Windows 11, has pushed a growing number of everyday users and small businesses to consider a different path. This feature lays out five practical, evidence-backed reasons to seriously evaluate switching from Windows to...

Microsoft has officially ended mainstream support for Windows 10: as of October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop delivering routine technical assistance, feature updates, and operating‑system security updates for the mainstream Windows 10 editions, and the company is urging users to move to Windows 11 or enroll in a time‑boxed Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. Background Windows 10 was introduced in 2015 and has been a centerpiece of Microsoft’s desktop strategy for a decade. The...