e-waste

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...

Windows 10’s retirement on October 14, 2025 has created a hard deadline that many users ignored until the last minute — and Google has moved quickly to turn that anxiety into a marketing and product opportunity: convert aging, unsupported Windows PCs into Chromebooks with ChromeOS Flex or push...

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...

The old laptop that still boots, still opens email, still remembers passwords and family photos is not a relic — it’s the center of a moral and practical debate about planned obsolescence, corporate product lifecycles, and who pays the environmental and financial costs when an operating system...

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...

A quiet technological funeral is underway across Aotearoa: two foundational pieces of the recent digital era — Windows 10 and the country’s 3G mobile network — are being retired, bringing immediate practical consequences and a flood of nostalgia for the devices and services they enabled...

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...

Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025 — after that date Microsoft will stop shipping regular OS security updates, quality fixes, and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions unless a device is covered by an approved extension program. Background...

Google’s offer to repurpose aging Windows 10 machines with ChromeOS Flex has turned a headline into a practical fork in the road for millions of users: accept Microsoft’s short-term, account‑tied Extended Security Updates (ESU) or replace the OS entirely and adopt Google’s cloud‑centric...

Pennsylvania officials and local groups have joined a broader U.S. campaign pressing Microsoft to reverse or soften its plan to end routine, automatic security updates for Windows 10—arguing the move will expose millions of machines to cyber risk, force premature hardware replacement, and...

Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 has shifted from a distant event to an immediate policy flashpoint — and local coverage of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)‑led campaign calling the “End of 10” troubling captures why the debate now mixes cybersecurity...

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 one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 has bought time — but it has not ended the political, environmental, or technical dispute over whether an OS vendor can, by changing support timelines and hardware gates, effectively force working machines into early...

A surprising headline claiming a “shock revival” of Windows 7 has spread through the tech press and social feeds as the industry counts down to Windows 10’s end-of-support milestone — but a careful look at the telemetry, vendor positions, and third‑party patching activity shows a far more...

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...

When Microsoft stops issuing security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, hundreds of millions of computers will be left on an unsupported platform — and that technical fact is colliding with an environmental and security crisis that deserves more than passing notice. The Public Interest...

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...