Dell’s blunt investor math — an installed base of roughly 1.5 billion Windows PCs, with “about 500 million” that can run Windows 11 but haven’t upgraded and another “about 500 million” that are effectively too old to run it — is reshaping how OEMs, enterprise IT teams and consumers think about...
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...
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Microsoft's hard stop for Windows 10 has landed as a market‑shaking deadline, and the ripple effects — emergency patches, a major PC replacement wave, a pointed Microsoft push for new "Copilot" AI PCs, and an unexpected lift for Mac shipments — are changing the upgrade calculus for millions of...
If your PC is blocked from Microsoft’s Windows 11 upgrade, there are still viable paths forward — from Microsoft’s supported tools that keep your system on the update channel to community workarounds that bypass hardware checks but carry real trade-offs. This feature explains every practical...
Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar reaches a hard stop on October 14, 2025 — a formal end‑of‑support milestone that ends routine OS security updates, feature and quality patches, and standard Microsoft technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions, while leaving a narrow, time‑boxed safety...
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...
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If your PC is still running Windows 10, the calendar is no longer a distant concern — it's a deadline with real security consequences: Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, feature fixes, and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that shift raises...
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Google just turned a routine search-session into an advertisement for platform migration: users visiting Google.com on Windows 10 have reported a prominent pop-up urging them to “Time for a new laptop? Get Chromebook Plus,” explicitly referencing that security fixes for Windows 10 end in October...
Windows desktop market-share data flipped twice this summer: after StatCounter showed Windows 11 briefly overtaking Windows 10 in July 2025, August’s snapshot reversed some of that gain and put Windows 11 back under the 50% mark while Windows 10 recovered several points—an unexpected wobble with...
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Windows 10 will reach its official end-of-support on October 14, 2025 — but Microsoft has built a narrowly scoped, one-year Extended Security Updates (ESU) escape hatch that lets many consumers continue receiving security-only patches through October 13, 2026 if they enroll before the deadline...
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The short answer: for most players, switching from Windows 10 to Windows 11 will not change your average framerate in today’s demanding games — but a handful of minimum‑FPS regressions and micro‑stutter reports make the decision more nuanced than a simple “upgrade or wait.” Recent hands‑on...
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Microsoft’s May 2025 Patch Tuesday arrives amid heightened security concerns, delivering a comprehensive suite of 74 security fixes that span the company’s sprawling product family, including Windows, Office, Azure, and Microsoft Defender. As cyberattacks steadily increase in both sophistication...
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As we hurtle towards the future, it seems almost surreal that Windows 10 has been with us for nearly a decade. However, on October 14, 2025, the curtain will fall on the support for this operating system, marking a significant turning point for millions of users worldwide. This article breaks...
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