e-waste

Windows 10’s retirement in October 2025 didn’t make it vanish overnight — it only sharpened the question users have been asking for years: when does a perfectly good tool become disposable? The MakeUseOf piece that kicked off this conversation captures the tension well: for many, Windows 10...

A single photograph of neatly lined, company-branded all‑in‑one PCs, boxed and waiting to be hauled away, ignited a flurry of online anger—and for good reason: the image exposed a blunt, recurring tension in modern IT purchasing and sustainability cycles. What one passerby saw as a neat...

The year 2025 delivered an unusual kind of obituary list: not people, but products, platforms, and projects that quietly — or spectacularly — reached the end of their road, leaving users, IT teams, and the market to pick up the pieces and ask what these exits say about the direction of consumer...

Microsoft’s plan to turn Windows into an AI-first platform has collided with the stubborn reality of users who value stability, control and predictable upgrades — and the resulting standoff is exposing a massive gap between marketing ambition and user willingness to follow. A cluster of vendor...

Dell’s blunt admission on its latest earnings call — that the Windows 11 migration “has not completed” — is a concise way of saying the modern Windows upgrade cycle is slower, messier, and more commercially complicated than many expected. The company’s COO, Jeffrey Clarke, told investors that...

In the quiet churn between OEM order boards and corporate asset inventories, a tectonic shift has accelerated: hardware vendors are increasingly shipping new PCs with Windows 11 by default, and in some channels the option to buy machines pre‑loaded with Windows 10 has all but disappeared—an...

As businesses rush to replace or upgrade fleets after Windows 10 reached its vendor-supported end date, a growing number of UK organisations are being urged to stop — assess — and donate working Windows 10 laptops instead of consigning them to recycling or scrapping, turning a looming e‑waste...

Windows’ decade-long dominance is ending in a way few anticipated: the Sunset of Windows 10 has created a sudden — and unusually visible — intersection of security deadlines, corporate refresh cycles and a literal pile of valuable materials waiting inside old machines, and what began as a...

Microsoft’s decision to end free support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 created an immediate policy and practical crisis — and community repair groups stepped into the breach, turning International Repair Day into a national and global campaign to keep functioning machines in use rather than...

Microsoft’s formal cutoff for Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025 forced a hard choice for millions of users — and a team of repair activists answered that emergency with a series of “Fix‑a‑thon” refurb events that rescued more than a hundred laptops and redirected them away from landfill and...

As organisations confront the practical and environmental fallout of Windows 10 reaching its end of support, a London social enterprise is offering a pragmatic pathway: securely refurbish and repurpose redundant corporate laptops, reimage them with open-source or lightweight supported operating...

Sky has quietly decided to pull the plug on Sky Live: the Kinect-esque camera that turned Sky Glass into a motion-tracking fitness coach, a motion-controlled games console, a Zoom-capable TV and a “watch together” social screen will stop functioning on 4 December 2025, and Sky says anyone who...

Microsoft’s cut-off for Windows 10 support has become a precipitating event for an avoidable e-waste crisis: security-driven upgrade pressure, strict Windows 11 hardware gates (notably TPM 2.0), and uneven recycling capacity risk turning hundreds of millions of still-functional machines into...

Microsoft’s decision to end free support for Windows 10 has set off a ripple of practical, environmental and economic effects — and experts warn the most visible of those is a likely surge in electronic waste that could be worth billions in recoverable metals even as it threatens pollution and...

Microsoft has issued another high‑visibility reminder to Windows 10 users as the operating system reaches its planned end of support, urging migrations, outlining a limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, and prompting renewed discussion about security, hardware compatibility, and...

Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 has rippled far beyond product lifecycles — it presents a genuine risk of a significant uptick in electronic waste (e‑waste) and leaves a large population of users exposed to mounting cybersecurity danger unless they choose one of...

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...

Microsoft’s decision to stop free, routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has done what product lifecycles often do quietly — it turned a software milestone into a public-policy flashpoint about the scale of electronic waste, the limits of the right to repair, and who...

The abrupt end of free, routine support for Windows 10 — and the narrow upgrade path Microsoft has set toward Windows 11 — has created a perfect storm of security, equity, and environmental risks that could convert hundreds of millions of still-functional PCs into liability or landfill. Advocacy...

Microsoft's latest Insider preview effectively closes the easiest doors that let people set up Windows 11 with a purely local account during the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), and for privacy‑minded users the timing is provocative enough to push a real conversation about whether now is the right...