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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...

Microsoft’s decision to stop routine security updates and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 is a hard calendar moment with real security, operational and economic consequences for millions of home users, small businesses and large enterprises worldwide. The company...

Windows 10 reaches its official end-of-support on 14 October 2025 — a calendar milestone that collides with International E‑Waste Day and has prompted Auckland Council to issue a blunt, practical message: “Ditch your obsolete tech responsibly.” The council’s appeal is not just an environmental...

Microsoft’s decision to end free, automatic security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 is more than a product lifecycle milestone — it is a social and environmental fault line that risks widening the digital divide, accelerating electronic waste (e‑waste), and shifting essential...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

The startling headline — that Windows 10’s end-of-support could create roughly £1.8 billion of recoverable metals in the UK alone — is both eye-catching and accurate as a headline-sized calculation, but it is not a forecast. The figure emerges from a chain of assumptions (global device counts...

If your Windows 10 PC is being told it’s “ineligible” for Windows 11, the fix may be a single BIOS/UEFI switch — enabling your machine’s TPM (Trusted Platform Module) support — and in many cases that alone will make the system eligible for the free Windows 11 upgrade before Windows 10 support...

With less than two weeks on the clock before Microsoft’s declared end-of-support date for Windows 10, a widening coalition of consumer advocates, repair groups and environmental campaigners is mounting a high-profile push to delay or reshape the cutoff — arguing that the company’s current...

Microsoft’s deadline is now unavoidable: Windows 10 will stop receiving regular security updates on October 14, 2025, and the immediate fallout in India—where millions of machines still run Windows 10—has forced consumers, small businesses, and large organisations into a compressed set of...

Three weeks is not a long time in the life of a PC, but when that window sits directly ahead of a fixed end-of-support deadline it becomes a hard stop: Windows 10 will stop receiving routine security and quality updates on October 14, 2025, and every Windows 10 user now has three practical...

Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10, warning that tens — possibly hundreds — of millions of still-working PCs will be left exposed when mainstream updates and security patches stop on October 14, 2025. The advocacy group’s letter to Microsoft’s CEO...

Microsoft will stop issuing routine security and feature updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, leaving millions of PCs exposed unless users upgrade to Windows 11, enroll in Microsoft’s limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or move to another platform — and the decision has...

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...