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Windows 11 reaching one billion users — and doing it faster than Windows 10 — is the kind of headline that gets product teams, OEM partners, and IT departments talking. Microsoft quietly confirmed the milestone during its fiscal Q2, 2026 commentary, and company executives have since framed the...

Microsoft has quietly drawn a line under one of the longest‑lived branches of Windows: the Vista‑derived codebase that powered Windows Server 2008 has reached the absolute end of vendor‑supplied security updates, with the final paid lifecycle option (Premium Assurance) closing on January 13...

Microsoft has formally closed the book on the Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 codebase: on January 13, 2026 the last vendor‑issued update pathway for that lineage expired, removing the final paid support channel that had kept Critical and Important security fixes flowing for a dwindling set...

Microsoft has finally torn off the bandage: the last vendor-supplied security updates for the Vista‑era Windows codebase — most notably Windows Server 2008 — have ended with the expiration of Microsoft’s Premium Assurance commitments on January 13, 2026. This final cutoff completes a long...

Windows 10’s era of free, vendor-supplied security updates ended with a clear calendar cut‑off on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft’s replacement path is a time‑boxed, security‑only Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that shifts the burden — and in many cases the cost — of staying protected...

Microsoft has quietly begun retiring Microsoft Lens — the simple, highly rated mobile document scanner that many people relied on for quick OCR and one‑tap exports — and is consolidating its mobile scanning functionality into OneDrive and the Microsoft 365 Copilot family of apps, with a phased...

No Exchange Server Security Updates for January 2026 — What on‑premise Exchange admins need to know and do now On January 13, 2026 Microsoft’s Exchange Team published a short but important bulletin: there are no security releases for any version of Exchange Server in January 2026. The post also...