The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a cautious but informative verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on text‑based tasks, yet the measurable productivity gains were small, use‑case dependent, and offset in places by...
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Satya Nadella’s five short Copilot prompts are less a CEO flex and more a practical playbook for turning generative AI into repeatable executive work — from meeting readiness and project rollups to launch probabilities and time audits — and the implications for Windows and Microsoft 365 admins...
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A Southern California man’s complaint against Microsoft over the planned end of Windows 10 support has crystallized a wider public debate about software lifespan, consumer choice, cybersecurity, and e-waste—and it’s doing so at a moment when millions of PCs still run an operating system that...
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Windows users facing the October deadline for Windows 10 support are being offered a realistic, battle-tested alternative in Zorin OS — a Dublin-born Linux distribution that promises to keep older PCs secure, fast and usable for years to come, and which the Irish Times frames as a timely option...
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Canadian universities are moving from debate to deployment: secure corporate AI assistants and campus-licensed models are now part of day‑to‑day IT offerings at multiple institutions, even as faculty, students and student groups urge caution over privacy, bias, academic integrity and...
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A California resident has filed suit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 after the company’s scheduled October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing the shutdown amounts to forced obsolescence that steers users into buying Windows 11–capable...
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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...
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A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego is challenging Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support for Windows 10, arguing the cutoff amounts to forced obsolescence designed to drive customers onto Windows 11 and new AI‑optimized hardware—and asking a court to force Microsoft to keep...
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A Southern California resident’s lawsuit against Microsoft over the planned end of Windows 10 support has escalated a routine product lifecycle event into a high‑stakes legal and policy battle touching on security, consumer rights, environmental impact, and the commercial dynamics of the...
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A California resident has filed suit against Microsoft, arguing the company's October 14, 2025 end-of-support for Windows 10 is premature, coercive and effectively forces millions of users to either upgrade to Windows 11, buy new hardware, or pay for limited extended support—an action the...
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A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego has escalated what many expected to be a routine product‑lifecycle moment into a high‑stakes legal and public‑policy flashpoint: the planned October 14, 2025 end of mainstream support for Windows 10, and the question of whether Microsoft can — or...
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A California resident has filed suit seeking to stop Microsoft from cutting off free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the company’s end‑of‑support decision amounts to forced obsolescence that funnels users toward Windows 11 and Microsoft’s AI‑focused hardware...
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A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego is attempting to turn Microsoft’s scheduled October 14, 2025 retirement of Windows 10 into a court‑enforced policy debate — asking a judge to compel the company to keep delivering free security updates for Windows 10 until the OS’s market share falls...
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A Southern California resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a challenge that reframes a routine product‑lifecycle milestone as a flashpoint for questions about planned obsolescence, consumer...
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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
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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...
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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...
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A Southern California resident has asked a court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 this October, arguing the company’s announced end-of-support is not a routine lifecycle event but a deliberate tactic to force hardware upgrades and entrench...
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 retirement has gone from a scheduled lifecycle event to a full‑blown legal, environmental and consumer‑rights story — a San Diego plaintiff has sued Microsoft seeking an order to keep Windows 10 receiving free security updates until its installed base falls to a small...
A California resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to keep Windows 10 receiving free security updates, calling the company’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support decision a de facto coercion to buy new hardware and a move to entrench its AI strategy — a case that crystallizes...
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