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Microsoft officially stopped providing free security updates and technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, leaving millions of PCs exposed to new vulnerabilities; for many households, schools, and small offices that cannot upgrade to Windows 11 because of strict hardware checks (TPM 2.0, supported CPUs, Secure Boot), the most practical, low-cost option is migration to a free operating system — and today there are mature, secure, and user-friendly choices that can safely replace...

ANS’s acquisition of Oxford-based Sci‑Net Business Solutions marks the latest and most deliberate step in a consolidation wave among UK Microsoft specialists as firms race to scale cloud, ERP and AI delivery capabilities for customers in retail, e‑commerce and distribution. The deal—announced in mid‑October 2025—adds Sci‑Net’s 65 consultants, cloud specialists and developers to ANS and is financially supported by private equity backers Inflexion and Barings, expanding ANS’s bench to more...

Today is the day Microsoft draws a line under a decade of Windows 10: as of October 14, 2025 the platform’s routine, vendor‑supplied servicing ends for mainstream consumer and most enterprise editions — unless you take one of the limited, time‑boxed escape routes Microsoft has provided. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived as Microsoft’s re‑entry into stable, broadly compatible desktop Windows. Launched on July 29, 2015, it replaced the controversial Windows 8 era with a familiar Start...

Microsoft has drawn a firm line under a decade of Windows 10 maintenance: as of October 14, 2025, mainstream vendor support for the most widely used consumer and enterprise editions of Windows 10 ends, which means routine security updates, non‑security quality fixes, feature updates and general Microsoft technical assistance will no longer be provided for unenrolled devices. Background Windows 10 launched in 2015 and was supported under Microsoft’s long‑running servicing model for ten years...

Microsoft has ended free mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a clear, calendar‑backed cutoff that shifts responsibility for security and compatibility from the vendor to the owner unless one of the sanctioned transition paths is chosen immediately. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived in 2015 and became the default desktop OS for hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide. Microsoft’s lifecycle policy set a firm end‑of‑servicing date for the product: October 14, 2025...

Microsoft has formally ended mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that shift changes the security, upgrade, and lifecycle calculus for hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide. Background Windows 10’s end of support is a major milestone: Microsoft will no longer publish routine feature or quality updates for Windows 10 after October 14, 2025. Critical and important security updates for consumer devices are available only through the new Extended Security Updates (ESU)...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and that date changes the security, compliance, and upgrade calculus for millions of PCs worldwide. The key question is no longer “Will support end?” but “What will you do about it?” This feature explains exactly what end of support means, the real risks of doing nothing, every practical migration path (upgrade, replace, or buy time), and a step‑by‑step playbook to protect data and keep systems secure...

After nearly ten years of patches, features, and the occasional controversial upgrade notification, Windows 10 has reached its official end-of-support date — and that changes the calculus for millions of PCs around the world. Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, quality fixes, and free technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions after October 14, 2025, leaving devices that remain on Windows 10 increasingly exposed to newly discovered vulnerabilities. For most...

Just when millions of Windows 10 users were racing the calendar to move to a supported OS, Microsoft’s most convenient single‑click upgrade tool for Windows 11 began failing on the very machines that needed it most — and that failure has forced users and small IT teams into manual, more complicated routes to upgrade before Windows 10’s support cutoff. Background Microsoft set a firm end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date, consumer editions stop receiving...

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...