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Microsoft has set a hard stop: Windows 10 will receive no further routine security or feature updates after October 14, 2025, forcing every user and organization still running the OS to choose between upgrading, enrolling in a time‑limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, or accepting a steadily increasing security and compatibility risk. Background Windows 10 launched in 2015 and became the dominant PC platform for the next decade. Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar has now reached its...

You can run a full copy of Windows inside a Docker container — not by emulating the Windows API or using Wine, but by packaging a real Windows installation inside a container that launches QEMU/KVM and exposes the desktop over VNC/RDP — and several open-source projects have already made that practical for testing, development, and safe sandboxing. Background / Overview Containerization and virtualization have blurred together into a set of hybrid workflows that let you treat a Windows...

Microsoft’s consumer productivity bundle just got a heavy dose of AI: Microsoft 365 Premium folds advanced Copilot capabilities into a single subscription that bundles the desktop Office apps, 1 TB of OneDrive per user, and consumer-grade Defender protections — all for a headline price of about $19.99 per month (roughly $200 per year). This move consolidates the standalone Copilot Pro offering while promising “extensive usage” of Copilot features for Premium subscribers, but it also...

This week’s tech dispatch wedges three converging trends into a single, unmistakable message: platform lifecycles, AI priorities, and micro‑monetisation are reshaping everyday computing choices. The Hindustan Times Wired Wisdom newsletter framed the week around three anchors — the end of the road for Windows 10, OpenAI’s consumer pivot toward AI‑generated short video (the Sora story), and YouTube’s new price tier, YouTube Premium Lite — and threaded in retail optics and India’s booming...

Microsoft’s latest background push — automatically installing Microsoft 365 “Companion” apps onto Windows 11 machines that already run Office desktop clients — landed this week as a small but consequential escalation in the company’s strategy to make AI-first productivity features default on subscriber devices. The three taskbar-integrated companions (People, Files, Calendar) will be pushed to eligible devices in a staged rollout Microsoft says begins in late October and is expected to...

Microsoft’s official end-of-support clock for Windows 10 hits a hard stop on October 14, 2025, and that calendar event has prompted Marquette University IT Services to require every Marquette-owned Windows PC to be running Windows 11 before the deadline — a last-mile migration push that the university says still leaves several hundred machines to be upgraded or replaced. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle policy is unambiguous: routine security updates, feature and quality patches...

Microsoft has quietly — but deliberately — given the 10 core Microsoft 365 app icons their first major visual overhaul since 2018, aligning the suite’s visual language with Copilot and a broader push toward an “AI-first” productivity experience across Windows, web, and mobile. Overview The icon update affects the core Office/365 apps users see every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Teams, and the rest of the “big ten” Microsoft 365 apps — and is being positioned not...

Microsoft’s newest consumer play has a tectonic side effect for enterprise IT: the company now explicitly allows personal Microsoft 365 Copilot subscriptions to operate on work documents when a user signs into Office apps with both a work (Entra) and a personal Microsoft account — a controlled “bring your own Copilot” (BYOC) path that promises convenience for employees but raises hard governance, compliance and licensing questions for administrators. Background Microsoft’s October...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update isn’t a small UI tweak — it’s a deliberate shift toward agentic work inside Office, where multi-step AI agents plan, execute, validate, and iterate inside Excel, Word, and Copilot chat to produce spreadsheets, documents, and slide decks. This “vibe working” push introduces Agent Mode in Excel and Word and a chat-first Office Agent that together promise faster first drafts and broader access to advanced workflows — but the hard reality of accuracy...

Microsoft’s October overhaul of Game Pass jacks the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by roughly 50% while adding high-profile perks — Fortnite Crew, Ubisoft+ Classics, better cloud streaming and a promise of 75+ day‑one releases a year — yet the one feature many families asked for for years, a formal family plan, remains absent from the public product roadmap and consumer billing changes. Background / Overview Microsoft announced a major reshaping of Game Pass into three named tiers —...

Microsoft's CTO Kevin Scott told a packed audience at Italian Tech Week that Microsoft’s long-term plan is to run “mainly Microsoft chips” for its AI data centers — not out of ideology but out of control: control of cost, latency, and system design. That short sentence captures a sweeping shift in how one of the largest cloud providers intends to balance third‑party partnerships with in‑house engineering, from silicon and racks to cooling and networking. The comment is the latest public...

Microsoft’s new Network Security Hub in Azure is a deliberate evolution of Azure Firewall Manager into a single-pane, service-aware control plane that consolidates firewalling, application-layer protection, and volumetric defense — promising simpler discoverability, unified visibility, and more consistent policy application across sprawling cloud networks. Background For organizations wrestling with dozens of security controls, cloud regions, and a mix of native and third‑party appliances...

The U.S. Navy has effectively admitted that a custom-built NAVSEA cloud environment is so tightly coupled to Microsoft Azure that it cannot be moved to another provider without a full “ground-up” rebuild — a decision that NAVSEA says would add years of delay and duplicated expense, and which the service has justified with a sole‑source award to Microsoft while promising future procurement changes to avoid the same trap. Background NAVSEA (Naval Sea Systems Command) consolidated dozens of...

When the Clocks Don’t Click: Why Radeon RX 6600 Shows Incorrect GPU Clocks on Windows 7 — an in‑depth look By WindowsForum.com staff journalist Summary — A wave of users running AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 on older Windows 7 installs have reported that their GPU clocks are being misreported, bouncing between unusually low “idle” numbers and unexpectedly high numbers under light loads — or the Radeon software complains the driver and software versions “do not match.” The root causes are a mix of...

The next chapter in the handheld-PC arms race is shaping up around a deceptively small detail: how easy it is to change the storage inside your device. Recent hands‑on reporting shows Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 has made SSD upgrades more difficult — requiring battery and fan removal and a glued thermal plate — while ASUS’ ROG Xbox Ally family looks intentionally designed to support user and third‑party SSD upgrades, backed by SanDisk/WD_BLACK’s newly announced SN7100X drives for the Ally line...

Microsoft’s official end-of-support date for Windows 10 is now firmly on the calendar — October 14, 2025 — but Microsoft has built a practical escape hatch: a one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that most consumer PCs can join in a few clicks through Settings. The process is simple for eligible machines: update to Windows 10 version 22H2, make sure recent cumulative updates are installed, sign in with (or create) a Microsoft account if prompted, and click the new “Enroll now”...

If you’re committed to moving a machine from Windows 10 back to Windows 7, this guide gives a practical, tested playbook—covering the three viable downgrade paths (clean install, dual‑boot, and virtual machine), the exact preflight checks you must run, the driver-order and slipstreaming details that save hours of grief, and a pragmatic risk‑mitigation plan for running an unsupported OS. The step‑by‑step structure and recovery tips are adapted from a complete how‑to that walks readers through...

Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 arrives as a bold, expensive answer to a single, recurring complaint about Windows handhelds: the screen — and in that narrow respect it’s hard to argue with the result. Background / Overview The Legion Go 2 is Lenovo’s second-generation Windows handheld and a deliberate pivot into premium territory. Where the original Legion Go experimented with detachable controllers and a large touchscreen, the Go 2 doubles down on display quality, memory and battery capacity, and a...

A startling paradox has appeared on the eve of Windows 10’s official end-of-support date: rather than moving en masse to Windows 11, a measurable portion of web traffic records shows users surfacing on Windows 7—an operating system that stopped receiving free security updates five years ago—exposing a split migration pattern that complicates Microsoft’s upgrade plans and raises urgent security and logistics questions for consumers and IT managers. Background: the migration that wasn’t...

Files 4.0 delivers the Omnibar — a single, elegant input that fuses path editing, search, and a full command palette — and with it a clear statement about what a modern Windows file manager can and should be: faster navigation, fewer context switches, and built‑in actions that remove repetitive menu dives. Background For years Windows users tolerated File Explorer’s incremental improvements because it “just works” and integrates deeply with the OS. That same integration is also why...