digital inclusion

Cambridge charity Rebooted is urging companies to turn obsolete Windows 10 laptops into engines of social mobility — securely wiping corporate kit, installing Google’s ChromeOS Flex, and donating the refurbished devices to young people who would otherwise be offline — a timely appeal that...

Cambridge charity Rebooted’s call for businesses to donate idle Windows 10 laptops after Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support is far more than a feel‑good recycling story — it’s a practical public‑interest proposal that converts a security and e‑waste problem into a measurable...

A new push from a London social enterprise is urging businesses and IT teams to stop treating functional Windows 10 machines as trash — offering refurbishment, secure re-imaging and alternative OS installs as practical, lower-cost routes that cut e‑waste while preserving security and value. The...

A new, age-focused guide to Microsoft’s latest desktop — promoted in a recent press release distributed via EIN Presswire and republished on regional outlets — aims to tackle one of the fastest-growing barriers to digital inclusion: tech anxiety among older adults. The announcement positions...

Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

The Restart Project’s new “End of Windows 10” toolkit has sharpened a public campaign into an actionable playbook for community repair groups and activists — and its message is blunt: Microsoft’s hardware-gated Windows 11 transition risks driving hundreds of millions of still‑serviceable PCs...

Consumer Reports has formally asked Microsoft to keep providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, warning that the current one‑year, consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) plan and paid options will leave millions of...

Family Weekend at Baylor unfolded this year as a familiar campus ritual — food trucks, concerts, and a football kickoff — while simultaneously revealing an often-overlooked counter-narrative: for many international students the weekend is less a reunion than a careful juggling act of time zones...

Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment...

The McDuffie Progress lists a community event called Exploring Windows, but the event page could not be retrieved directly; the available record indicates the listing exists but was inaccessible at the time of research, so this feature combines a verified note about the McDuffie Progress listing...

When Microsoft set a firm October 14, 2025 end-of-support date for Windows 10, a predictable community response followed: local repair cafés across the UK have started planning special sessions to help residents keep working machines safe and useful without buying new hardware. In Huddersfield...

Local repair cafés from Huddersfield to Slaithwaite are planning a free, volunteer-led “Linux Repair Café Day” to help residents keep working Windows 10 PCs out of landfill and protected after Microsoft ends free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. Background Microsoft’s...

A Southern California resident has asked a state court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the company’s announced end‑of‑support timetable amounts to forced obsolescence tied to a push toward Windows 11 and Microsoft’s...

A Southern California resident has asked a state court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 this October, arguing the company’s planned October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support amounts to forced obsolescence that funnels users toward Windows 11 and Microsoft’s...

Windows accessibility features have long been misunderstood as tools strictly for users with specific disabilities, but modern versions of Windows reimagine these tools as power options for everyone. Recent enhancements in Windows 11 place a premium on inclusion, customization, and...

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...

In the bustling corridors of technological advancement, artificial intelligence (AI) is repeatedly proclaimed as the next paradigm shift of human progress. Yet beneath the rhetoric of global AI supremacy, vital questions persist about whose knowledge, culture, and priorities these intelligent...

Magnifier, a built-in accessibility tool in Windows, is designed to improve on-screen visibility and offers a unique feature that allows screen text to be read aloud. While it has long served people with visual impairments, recent updates have expanded its utility to a broader range of users...

As the end of support for Windows 10 looms on the horizon, millions of users are confronting a major turning point in the daily life of their computers. The October 14, 2025, cutoff marks not just the end of critical security updates for what remains the most widely used desktop operating...