Microsoft’s decision to stop routine support for Windows 10 did not magically turn millions of still‑functional PCs into useless junk — but it did force an urgent question onto the agenda: obsolete to whom? For households, charities, hospitals and stretched school budgets, the end of Windows...
Iron Mountain says the Windows 10 end-of-life is already reshaping IT asset disposition: secure data sanitization, higher volumes of device decommissioning, and a shift toward treating refresh cycles as strategic value-recovery opportunities rather than one-off disposal events.
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Ingram Micro’s latest investor call and fiscal results leave little doubt that the company is riding two concurrent tailwinds: the imminent October 14, 2025 end of support for Windows 10 — which is accelerating commercial device refreshes — and the gradual emergence of AI-driven demand that is...
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