After a short-lived journey that began with high hopes in 2021, Microsoft has officially sounded the death knell for Windows 11 SE, its tailored school edition aimed at low-cost classroom PCs. This move marks not just the end of an operating system variant but signals another pivot in...
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Just under four years after its understated debut, the chapter of Windows 11 SE—the edition crafted by Microsoft for low-cost PCs and the education sector—is closing, leaving teachers, IT admins, and the broader technology community to reflect on a pivotal experiment that never quite found its...
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The rumors were true: On Friday, Microsoft announced Windows 8.1 with Bing , a new version of Windows 8.1 available only to hardware manufacturers. The new edition of Windows appears to be the same as the standard version of Windows 8.1 (complete with this spring's Windows 8.1 Update ), but with...