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Microsoft's recent decision to discontinue Windows 11 SE marks the end of its latest attempt to penetrate the education sector with a streamlined operating system. This move underscores the challenges the company has faced in competing with Google's Chrome OS, which has steadily gained traction...

Windows 11 SE, Microsoft's streamlined operating system designed for educational environments, is approaching its end of life. According to Microsoft's official lifecycle documentation, support for Windows 11 SE will conclude in October 2026. (learn.microsoft.com) This decision marks the...

Microsoft's recent announcement to discontinue Windows 11 SE marks a significant shift in its strategy within the educational technology sector. Introduced in 2021, Windows 11 SE was designed as a streamlined, cloud-centric operating system tailored for low-cost educational devices, positioning...

The sound of a closing door echoes across Microsoft’s educational strategy today as the company formally ends support for Windows 11 SE, its ambitious but ultimately short-lived competitor to ChromeOS. Two years after its high-profile launch, Windows 11 SE finds itself relegated to the footnotes...

Just over three years after its understated arrival in late 2021, Microsoft’s effort to challenge the dominance of Chromebooks in classrooms—Windows 11 SE—has come to a definitive end. This chapter in Microsoft’s long quest to engineer a worthy Chrome OS alternative is closing not with a bang...

Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of Windows 11 SE, its streamlined operating system designed to compete with Google's Chrome OS in the education sector. Support for Windows 11 SE will officially end in October 2026, marking the conclusion of Microsoft's latest endeavor to capture the...

Just under four years after its understated debut, the chapter of Windows 11 SE—the edition crafted by Microsoft for low-cost PCs and the education sector—is closing, leaving teachers, IT admins, and the broader technology community to reflect on a pivotal experiment that never quite found its...

Navigating the world of laptops in 2025 presents buyers with a daunting array of choices. With manufacturers churning out new models boasting ever-more impressive specs, sleek designs, and bold promises, deciding on a single machine requires careful research and a clear understanding of your own...

Numbers rarely lie, but sometimes they stagger out of the bar, tipsy and swearing they saw a unicorn. According to StatCounter—an outfit notorious for peering into the internet’s tea leaves and calling it statistics—Windows 10’s share of US web traffic has tumbled off a digital cliff. In just...

A remarkable yet subdued surge in PC sales is taking place on the global stage as 2025 unfolds. Far removed from the noisy launches and splashy marketing campaigns that often signal tech booms, this uptick has instead been propelled by a convergence of two potent forces. On one side, the...

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, there’s a new player on the block—CVE-2024-10487, a critical vulnerability that has been highlighted recently, particularly concerning Chromebooks, Microsoft Edge as well as the broader Chromium-based browsers. What is CVE-2024-10487...

I'm a long time Microsoft OS user, and have been curious about Chromebooks since they're priced a lot lower than other laptops. In my research I discovered many positive, as well as negative remarks concerning them. My main concern is being locked into Google things, like Chrome browser. If...

# forwhatitsworth Acer- and Samsung-built Chromebooks arrive in retail stores, URL shortener bitly makes its "Pro" service free to all users, and Microsoft VP Dan'l Lewin gives reason to believe Windows 8 might arrive in the fall of 2012. More*» Source: Yahoo! News

Companies can make big plans about new product launches, but ultimately scrap the idea down the road for whatever reason. Such is the case with Toshiba as it would appear that a Digitimes report that quotes insider leaks seems to indicate that the Windows 7 tablets and Chromebooks will not be...

Toshiba has shown a Windows 7 Tablet at the CES. It looks like Toshiba has realized that a Windows 7 Tablet just does not make any sense. Digitimes reports that sources in the industry say that... More...

Toshiba has reportedly scrapped plans to support Chromebooks and Windows 7 tablets based on PC business leaks. The company's roadmap has supposedly eliminated the two altogether and has left just the Android 3.0-based Thrive tablet on its immediate schedule. The Windows model had been shown at...

News Analysis: The new Chromebook notebooks introduced by Samsung and Acer with considerable fanfare at the Google I/O conference the week of May 9 will be available for order on June 15. But their chances of survival just aren’t all that great. Link Removed this week, Google announced that...