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Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a narrow, conditional lifeline: if you plan to keep a Windows 10 PC beyond the platform’s formal end-of-support date, you must complete a specific enrollment flow — or enable a OneDrive backup path — before the October 14, 2025 cutoff to receive one...

Microsoft pushed Windows 10 cumulative update KB5065429 to 22H2 machines this week, a mandatory security rollup that arrives as the platform approaches its October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline — and it’s tightly linked to Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment path...

Flyoobe lets you install Windows 11 on machines Microsoft considers incompatible — and it does so while stripping the setup of Microsoft’s default bloatware and Copilot AI prompts, giving power users a cleaner install and an expanded path to keep older hardware useful beyond official...

Computeractive’s “Problems solved” column from the 10 September 2025 issue distils a familiar mix of household tech triage and hard-bitten workshop experience: practical fixes for everyday Windows upgrades, a clear-eyed primer on Microsoft’s new cloud-assisted recovery tool, and an...

The tiny11builder project has received a significant refresh: the PowerShell-based builder now supports Windows 11 version 25H2 builds, adds explicit removal of Copilot and the new Outlook for Windows client, switches to more efficient recovery compression for smaller ISOs, and introduces...

Microsoft told many owners of older Windows 10 PCs they couldn’t move to Windows 11 — but hundreds of readers proved otherwise, using two straightforward workarounds to complete upgrades on hardware Microsoft’s installer flags as “incompatible.” The result: real-world evidence that the blockers...

The countdown to October 14, 2025 has turned what once felt like a routine product lifecycle event into a corporate boardroom dilemma: continue to run a mature, widely deployed operating system with mounting security and compliance risks, or expend capital and operational bandwidth to migrate...

Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally important security payload: this cycle addresses roughly 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure, Hyper‑V and related components, including several critical remote‑code‑execution (RCE) and elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) flaws...

Abdi’s “Brilliant Windows 12” concept doesn’t just re‑dress Windows in a shinier skin — it surfaces a coherent, user‑first playbook for how Microsoft could fix the things people actually complain about in Windows 11, and the timing could not be more consequential as Windows 10 support winds down...

Microsoft’s September 2025 hardening update for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2025 removes legacy update binaries used by WSUS to service the Windows Update SelfUpdate component, and that change has immediate operational implications for organizations still relying on...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday lands for Windows 10 with a mix of stability fixes, enterprise controls and a new organizational backup capability — but the rollout is as much about operational discipline as it is about fresh features. The September 2025 cumulative updates bring build bumps...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025, and that hard date turns a decade‑old desktop platform into an active security and operational risk for any system still running it unless organizations act now. Microsoft’s public guidance is straightforward —...

Microsoft quietly built a practical pause button for millions of Windows 10 PCs: if you meet a few requirements and follow the enrollment wizard, you can receive one extra year of security updates—without paying—by using Microsoft’s built‑in backup/sync option or by redeeming Microsoft Rewards...

Microsoft’s decision to stop free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has moved from a routine lifecycle notice into a global business, security and environmental story — one that could funnel billions into Microsoft’s coffers through Extended Security Updates (ESU), provoke...

Microsoft has set a hard cutoff for Windows 10: free mainstream support and monthly security updates stop on October 14, 2025, but a one‑year safety net — the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — gives eligible Windows 10 users a bridge until October 13, 2026. Background /...

Microsoft’s decision to sunset Windows 10 has moved from distant calendar noise to a pressing deadline: the OS reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is offering a limited consumer path to buy one more year of security-only updates — including a surprising set of free entry...

Microsoft has quietly added a practical new trick to Copilot in PowerPoint — it can now generate a ready-to-edit slide directly from a Word document (or create a full presentation from a Word file), and that feature arrives at the exact moment organizations must face the hard deadline for...

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...

Purdue University Northwest’s IT reminder is a timely, practical warning: Microsoft has scheduled Windows 10 end‑of‑support for October 14, 2025, and campus machines must be upgraded to Windows 11 or replaced — older hardware that cannot meet Windows 11 requirements will need to be retired or...

Tiny11’s emergence as a practical way to run a lean, modern Windows 11 on older PCs has suddenly moved from niche hobby to mainstream conversation — and it arrives at a combustible moment: Microsoft’s announced end of mainstream Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, places millions of users...