Microsoft's hard deadline for Windows 10 support — October 14, 2025 — has shifted the conversation for IT leaders from “if” to how fast and how wisely to move, and the time for planning alone has passed: organisations must now execute migration plans that protect security, preserve productivity...
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Microsoft has quietly—yet materially—expanded Windows 365’s regional footprint in Asia by making the Korea Central Azure region available for Cloud PC provisioning, enabling organizations operating in South Korea to host Cloud PC storage and compute within the country and reduce latency for...
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Microsoft’s slow, staged rollout of the Windows 10 Enroll now (ESU) wizard means the extension lifeline Microsoft promised for legacy PCs is available — but not instantly visible to everyone, and it comes with conditions and caveats that every Windows 10 user should understand before relying on...
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Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date for Windows 10—October 14, 2025—has pushed local managed‑IT providers into high gear, warning businesses that failure to prepare will increase security exposure, complicate compliance, and make future hardware purchases more expensive and time consuming...
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Microsoft's public notice about Windows 10 support is no longer just a calendar reminder — it's a deadline with real consequences for security, compatibility, and the cost of staying on an aging platform.
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Microsoft’s last free security updates for Windows 10 come to an official stop on October 14, 2025, but the company has quietly opened a one‑year safety valve for consumers — a short, careful bridge that lets many stay on Windows 10 while they plan a permanent migration. The consumer Extended...
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Microsoft’s official support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025 — but Microsoft has opened a one‑year safety valve for consumers: the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. You can keep receiving critical and important security patches through October 13, 2026 by...
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South African businesses that have not yet moved off Windows 10 face a fast-closing window of risk and operational work: Microsoft will stop providing technical assistance, feature updates and security patches for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and organisations that delay migration are already...
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Microsoft’s official support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025 — and that deadline turns a decade-old, still‑widely used operating system into a growing security liability unless you act now. 10 has been a workhorse for hundreds of millions of PCs, but when Microsoft stops shipping...
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The University of Manchester is telling staff and students to arrange their Windows 11 upgrade as soon as possible because Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, and continuing to run an unsupported OS will expose campus machines to increased cyber risk.
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Microsoft has confirmed what many household and small-business PC owners have been bracing for: the October 2025 Patch Tuesday release will be the last free monthly security update for mainstream Windows 10; after October 14, 2025, Windows 10 devices that are not enrolled in an Extended Security...
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Microsoft’s formal retirement of Windows 10 is now official and imminent: free support and monthly security updates end on October 14, 2025, and the company has rolled out a consumer-focused bridge — the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — to give households and small...
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Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 10 will reach its official end of support on October 14, 2025, has moved from a scheduled milestone to a legal and public-policy flashpoint, after a California resident filed a lawsuit on August 7, 2025, accusing the company of using the cutoff to force...
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Microsoft's late-summer move to soften the blow of Windows 10's end-of-support is a rare mix of relief and a reminder: the clock is still running. The company has rolled out a consumer-focused Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that gives many Windows 10 users a one-year security lifeline —...
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Microsoft’s move to let Windows 10 be deployed as a cloud-streamed OS through Azure-powered virtualization services marks a decisive step in putting the full Windows desktop inside enterprise cloud operations—and it changes how IT teams should think about provisioning, licensing, and security...
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Microsoft's countdown to the end of Windows 10 support has moved from calendar date to a consumer-facing prompt: a 60‑day warning that leaves millions of PCs with a clear deadline and a narrow set of paths forward to stay protected, migrate to Windows 11, or pay to extend security updates for a...
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Microsoft’s plan to add Linux and Android subsystem support to Windows 365 Cloud PCs — long visible on the Microsoft 365 roadmap — resurfaced in headlines recently, but the full story is more nuanced than a single preview date. Microsoft documented nested virtualization for Cloud PCs (the...
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Microsoft’s move to put the full Windows desktop into the cloud—branded as Windows 365 and marketed around the new “Cloud PC” concept—changed how organizations and users think about Windows devices: instead of tying a personalized Windows experience to a single laptop or desktop, Microsoft...
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Microsoft’s decision to lock Windows 11 behind a strict hardware gate is about to create a mass of usable-but-unsupported PCs — and the fallout will be technical, financial, and environmental.
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When Microsoft first announced Windows 11, the company framed the new release as a leap...
Microsoft’s Windows team is sketching a future in which your PC is less a passive tool and more a conversational partner — one that lives in the cloud, understands voice and vision, and uses context to anticipate and act on your intent. That is the core of Pavan Davuluri’s message: Windows will...
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