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If your PC is still running Windows 10, the calendar is no longer a distant concern — it's a deadline with real security consequences: Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, feature fixes, and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that shift raises...

A surprising headline claiming a “shock revival” of Windows 7 has spread through the tech press and social feeds as the industry counts down to Windows 10’s end-of-support milestone — but a careful look at the telemetry, vendor positions, and third‑party patching activity shows a far more...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

Valve will stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows for the Steam desktop client on January 1, 2026, a decision that effectively ends a long era of 32‑bit platform compatibility while imposing a clear migration deadline for the tiny fraction of users still running Windows 10 (32‑bit)...

Microsoft’s decision to stop servicing Windows 10 in mid‑October has turned a calendar item into an operational crisis for many business process outsourcing (BPO) firms — a sector that runs large, tightly controlled desktop estates and handles regulated, high‑value customer data. The technical...

Windows 10 users facing the October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline have one practical lifeline: Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program can keep eligible machines receiving critical and important security patches through October 13, 2026 — but enrollment is time-sensitive...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: routine support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, forcing millions of PCs onto one of three practical paths—upgrade, buy short-term protection, or accept increasing security and compatibility risk. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived in 2015...

Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10, warning that tens — possibly hundreds — of millions of still-working PCs will be left exposed when mainstream updates and security patches stop on October 14, 2025. The advocacy group’s letter to Microsoft’s CEO...

Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...

Microsoft will begin retiring the lightweight Outlook Lite Android app on October 6, 2025, blocking new installs that day as it directs users toward the full Outlook mobile client and consolidates engineering around a single, feature-rich Android email experience. Background Outlook Lite...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025, and that hard date turns a decade‑old desktop platform into an active security and operational risk for any system still running it unless organizations act now. Microsoft’s public guidance is straightforward —...

Microsoft is ending mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — yet for many users the story doesn’t end there: Microsoft has opened a narrowly scoped, one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that lets eligible Windows 10 devices receive security‑only patches...

Microsoft’s support clock for Windows 10 has a hard stop: after October 14, 2025, Microsoft will no longer issue routine security or feature updates for Windows 10, and millions of PCs will face a growing security and compatibility risk unless owners act — by upgrading to Windows 11, enrolling...

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...

The end of Windows 10 has sharpened a decision many hobbyists and professionals have been postponing: if you’re ready to ditch Windows, should you move to macOS or switch to Linux? The answer isn’t a slogan — it’s a set of practical trade-offs rooted in apps, hardware, support, budget, and how...

If you're still running Windows 10, the single most important action to take before October 14, 2025 is to ensure your PC is enrolled in Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — or to enable Windows Backup (OneDrive sync) right now so you qualify for the free ESU enrollment...

Microsoft’s slow, staged rollout of the Windows 10 Enroll now (ESU) wizard means the extension lifeline Microsoft promised for legacy PCs is available — but not instantly visible to everyone, and it comes with conditions and caveats that every Windows 10 user should understand before relying on...

Microsoft’s official support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025 — and that deadline turns a decade-old, still‑widely used operating system into a growing security liability unless you act now. 10 has been a workhorse for hundreds of millions of PCs, but when Microsoft stops shipping...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a practical — if temporary — lifeline for Windows 10 users as the operating system heads to its scheduled end of support: a consumer-friendly Extended Security Updates (ESU) path, an in-place “Enroll” experience via Windows Update, and multiple low-friction...

Microsoft’s recent policy updates around Office distribution have been widely misunderstood: the company is not locking Office into the Windows Store — it is effectively retiring the Microsoft Store installation type for Microsoft 365 (Office) apps and steering users toward Click-to-Run delivery...