digital equity

Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...

For more than a decade the cannabis category has been locked out of mainstream digital advertising playbooks—blocked by platform policies, throttled by opaque moderation, and scattered across short-lived social hype cycles—but paid editorial placements on high‑authority cultural publishers give...

Google and Microsoft have publicly committed to sweeping new AI-in-education initiatives announced at the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education, pledging broad product access, large-scale training programs, educator grants, and multi‑year investments intended to put...

Microsoft’s package of education pledges — announced at a White House AI education event and consolidated under the new Microsoft Elevate umbrella — promises a major, fast-moving push to put generative AI into students’ hands: free Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot for every eligible U.S...

Microsoft’s announcement at the White House AI Education Task Force marks a major consumer- and education-facing push: the company is offering Copilot built into Microsoft 365 Personal free for 12 months to every U.S. college student (including community college students) for sign-ups through...

Brighton Hill Community School has begun what its leaders call a “reinvention” of everyday teaching by rolling out a campus-wide fleet of Acer TravelMate laptops equipped with Intel processors and Microsoft Copilot, in a partnership involving Acer, Intel and Microsoft that aims to embed...

Microsoft's decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 has ignited a high‑stakes legal and policy debate: a California resident has filed suit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates, arguing the sunset constitutes forced obsolescence that disadvantages...

A Southern California resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s published end‑of‑support date of October 14, 2025, arguing the vendor’s lifecycle decision amounts to forced obsolescence and an...

Microsoft’s announced shutdown of free Windows 10 security updates in October 2025 has triggered more than grumbles — it’s spawned a California lawsuit and a public debate that could force Microsoft to change how it retires a dominant operating system. The complaint, filed by Lawrence Klein in...

A Southern California resident has filed suit in San Diego Superior Court asking a judge to block Microsoft’s planned October 14, 2025 end-of-support for Windows 10 and to force the company to continue providing free security updates until Windows 10’s install base falls below a...

Microsoft’s move to retire Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has become more than a routine product‑lifecycle note: it has sparked a court challenge that frames the end‑of‑support as a calculated nudge — some would say a shove — toward Windows 11, AI‑optimized hardware, and paid patching options...

Microsoft’s announced retirement of Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has triggered not just user frustration but a formal legal challenge — a single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego that asks a court to force Microsoft to keep providing free security updates for Windows 10 until its installed...

A single consumer’s courtroom challenge has transformed Microsoft’s planned Windows 10 sunset from a scheduled lifecycle event into a high-stakes debate about security, forced obsolescence, and how dominant platform vendors manage transitions to AI‑centric ecosystems. The complaint—filed in...

Hundreds of students and families converged at the Brownsville Events Center for a transformative evening that reflects a growing national commitment to digital equity. The City of Brownsville, backed by its dynamic IT Department and a strategic partnership with Dell Technologies, rolled out the...

From the rolling farmlands surrounding Goshen, Indiana, the pulse of global technology might seem a world away, but recent developments at Microsoft have underscored just how interconnected and consequential rural America has become in the digital age. The tech giant’s impact stretches from...

As the digital landscape shifts in anticipation of the end of Windows 10 support, the technology ecosystem faces an inflection point both for everyday users and for the broader IT industry. With Microsoft’s official cutoff date for mainstream support looming large—October 14, 2025—the choices...

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is rapidly transforming fields across the spectrum of higher education and healthcare, with academic medical centers being among the earliest and most energetic adopters of emerging A.I. solutions. On July 24, at the University of North Dakota’s (UND) School of...

San Francisco is taking a landmark step in public sector technology by extending the power of Microsoft's Copilot AI, based on OpenAI’s advanced GPT-4o model, to 30,000 municipal employees. This ambitious rollout, among the largest of its kind for local governments globally, reinforces the...

San Diego County's recent third-place recognition in the 2025 Digital Counties Survey underscores its commitment to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and modernization to enhance public services for its 3.3 million residents. AI Integration and Digital Modernization The County Technology...

The City of Brownsville, Texas, is taking significant strides to bridge the digital divide with its "Smart City: Back to School Digital Skills Workshop and Laptop Giveaway." This initiative aims to equip students with essential digital skills and provide them with the necessary tools to succeed...