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Most production automation running PowerShell 7.4 should be tested directly on PowerShell 7.6 LTS before November 10, 2026—not moved to PowerShell 7.5, which reaches end of support on the same date. Use pwsh.exe for PowerShell 7 workloads and powershell.exe for Windows PowerShell 5.1 exceptions...

Windows 11 has become Microsoft’s main desktop platform for hybrid work after Windows 10 support ended on October 14, 2025, giving businesses a more secure and collaboration-friendly operating system while also forcing many of them into hardware, licensing, training, and management costs. The...

Microsoft is ending support in October 2026 for Windows 11 SE, its locked-down education edition for low-cost school PCs, and Microsoft Publisher, the desktop publishing app that has survived inside Office for more than three decades. The dates are not merely housekeeping entries on a lifecycle...

Something is shifting in the PC market, and the new fault line runs straight through Windows 10’s end of life. Google is now pushing ChromeOS Flex as a free “upgrade” path for older Windows and Mac hardware, and that pitch lands at a very awkward moment for Microsoft, which is still managing the...

South African IT leaders face a simple, time‑sensitive reality: the operating system that protected and powered most workplaces for the last decade is gone, and moving to Windows 11 Pro is no longer just a nice‑to‑have — it’s a strategic imperative for security, compliance and long‑term...

Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 11 has passed the 1 billion‑user mark landed as both milestone and mirror: a headline achievement that confirms broad platform reach, and a prompt to scrutinize what “1 billion users” actually measures and why it matters now. The company revealed the figure...

Windows 11 reaching one billion users — and doing it faster than Windows 10 — is the kind of headline that gets product teams, OEM partners, and IT departments talking. Microsoft quietly confirmed the milestone during its fiscal Q2, 2026 commentary, and company executives have since framed the...

2026 opens with an uncommonly heavy calendar of Microsoft end‑of‑support and service retirements that will force IT teams to choose between urgent migrations, paid extensions, or running vulnerable legacy systems. Major desktop releases, several server and database platforms, multiple on‑prem...