Microsoft’s Windows 11 has reached a turning point: according to public telemetry, it now runs on nearly three out of every four Windows PCs worldwide — a seismic shift that reshapes the desktop landscape for users, IT teams, developers, and the PC hardware market. StatCounter’s February 2026...
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Windows 10 didn’t stop working on October 14, 2025 — but the safety net that kept it reasonably safe for most people has been removed, and that changes how long it’s sensible to keep running the OS on any machine that stores valuable data or connects to the internet.
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Windows 10’s era of free, vendor-supplied security updates ended with a clear calendar cut‑off on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft’s replacement path is a time‑boxed, security‑only Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that shifts the burden — and in many cases the cost — of staying protected...
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