Microsoft has officially announced the discontinuation of Windows 11 SE, its education-focused operating system designed for low-cost laptops. Support for Windows 11 SE will cease in October 2026, marking the end of an initiative aimed at competing with Google's Chrome OS in the educational...
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Microsoft's move to discontinue Windows 11 SE, its education-focused operating system meant to challenge Chrome OS, underscores a pivotal shift in the company's client OS strategy—signaling a quiet withdrawal from a high-stakes battle that began just a few short years ago. The announcement that...
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Just over three years after its understated arrival in late 2021, Microsoft’s effort to challenge the dominance of Chromebooks in classrooms—Windows 11 SE—has come to a definitive end. This chapter in Microsoft’s long quest to engineer a worthy Chrome OS alternative is closing not with a bang...