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Windows 11’s climb from a cautious, hardware‑constrained debut to the world’s most used desktop Windows release is now official: StatCounter‑tracked data show Windows 11 overtook Windows 10 in global share in mid‑2025, crossing the 50% threshold and leaving Windows 10 behind for the first time...

Windows 11’s numbers just took a dramatic turn: third‑party tracking data shows a sudden, large jump in market share while Microsoft simultaneously celebrated a high‑profile milestone — but whether that momentum will persist depends on forces well beyond a single month of charts. Background /...

Windows 11’s momentum stalled hard at the end of 2025: after briefly overtaking its predecessor, public telemetry now shows a meaningful retreat back to Windows 10, and a cascade of quality, privacy and messaging problems has turned what should have been a routine platform migration into a trust...

Windows desktop market-share data flipped twice this summer: after StatCounter showed Windows 11 briefly overtaking Windows 10 in July 2025, August’s snapshot reversed some of that gain and put Windows 11 back under the 50% mark while Windows 10 recovered several points—an unexpected wobble with...

Windows 10’s ascent from cautious upgrade to the world’s most-used desktop operating system finally reached a symbolic milestone in December 2018, when third‑party telemetry showed Windows 10 edging past Windows 7 in global market share. That crossover—reported as 39.22% for Windows 10 versus...

Microsoft’s Computex message — that Windows 10 had reached “3 hundred million” active devices — was an attention-grabbing milestone, but a closer look at contemporaneous market-share data shows a more complicated reality: Windows 10’s raw install base was growing fast, yet Windows 7 remained the...

Microsoft’s decision to stop issuing free security updates for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025 has forced IT leaders into a binary choice: pay to buy time, or accelerate an estate-wide migration to Windows 11 — and the short-term cost of staying on Windows 10 could be measured in billions for...

More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 with just weeks to go before Microsoft’s scheduled end-of-support date, according to a dataset Kaspersky shared via a Technology For You write-up — a situation that tightens the window for safe, budgeted migrations and forces...

As the calendar races toward October 14, 2025, a striking and inconvenient truth has emerged: a very large portion of the global PC installed base is still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepares to stop issuing free security updates and feature patches for that OS. PC makers, market...

Jagran Josh’s roundup that purports to name “the most-used AI chatbots in 2025” landed in inboxes and social feeds with a punchy list—ChatGPT at the top with a jaw‑dropping 46.59 billion “users,” followed by a clutch of U.S. and China‑based rivals—but a closer look shows the headline numbers...

Amazon’s cloud business is no longer the unambiguous growth engine it once was; recent quarters have exposed a gap between scale and momentum that has competitors seizing narrative advantage and enterprise mindshare. Background: the claim that started this debate The Analytics Insight piece...

Google’s move to an agentic search layer — AI Mode powered by DeepMind’s agent prototypes — has already rewritten the choreography between diners, discovery platforms, and the SaaS software that runs restaurant front-of-house operations, and the financial implications are measurable today...

Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 10 will reach its official end of support on October 14, 2025, has moved from a scheduled milestone to a legal and public-policy flashpoint, after a California resident filed a lawsuit on August 7, 2025, accusing the company of using the cutoff to force...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in California has turned what many expected to be a routine operating‑system lifecycle event into a live legal test of forced obsolescence, corporate market strategy, and the practical limits of vendor control over security for hundreds of millions of PCs. The...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego is attempting to turn Microsoft’s scheduled October 14, 2025 retirement of Windows 10 into a court‑enforced policy debate — asking a judge to compel the company to keep delivering free security updates for Windows 10 until the OS’s market share falls...

Microsoft’s move to retire Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has become more than a routine product‑lifecycle note: it has sparked a court challenge that frames the end‑of‑support as a calculated nudge — some would say a shove — toward Windows 11, AI‑optimized hardware, and paid patching options...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego is asking a court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the company’s end‑of‑support timetable amounts to forced obsolescence intended to push consumers toward Windows 11 and...

Microsoft’s announced retirement of Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has triggered not just user frustration but a formal legal challenge — a single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego that asks a court to force Microsoft to keep providing free security updates for Windows 10 until its installed...

ChatGPT has solidified its dominance as the world’s most widely used AI chatbot, cementing its role as the benchmark for conversational artificial intelligence and redefining how users engage with smart digital assistants across the globe. Fueled by unprecedented market penetration and...

In the rapidly evolving cloud computing landscape, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are making significant strides, challenging Amazon Web Services (AWS) for market dominance. Recent financial reports from the quarter ending June 2025 highlight this shift, with both companies reporting robust...