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  1. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: One-Year ESU Patch Bridge to Windows 11

    For millions of Windows users, the end of Windows 10 is no longer a distant calendar note — it arrives on October 14, 2025 — but Microsoft has quietly created a one‑year escape hatch that lets many consumers keep receiving security updates through October 13, 2026 without immediately buying new...
  2. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU, Free Enrollment Paths, and Upgrades

    Microsoft’s decision to sunset Windows 10 has moved from distant calendar noise to a pressing deadline: the OS reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is offering a limited consumer path to buy one more year of security-only updates — including a surprising set of free entry...
  3. Copilot in PowerPoint: Generate Slides from Word and Windows 10 End of Support

    Microsoft has quietly added a practical new trick to Copilot in PowerPoint — it can now generate a ready-to-edit slide directly from a Word document (or create a full presentation from a Word file), and that feature arrives at the exact moment organizations must face the hard deadline for...
  4. Undo OneDrive Backup in Windows 11: Move Folders Back Local

    Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup can be switched on for you during Windows 11 setup — but your files aren’t stolen; they’ve simply been moved into OneDrive and synced. If you prefer your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to live locally, the change is reversible: stop folder backup in OneDrive, then...
  5. Turn Word into PowerPoint with Copilot and Plan Windows 10 Migration Now

    Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...
  6. Windows 11 Local Offline Account: 3 Tested Bypasses & After-Setup Tips

    Windows 11’s setup still nudges you toward a Microsoft account — but a handful of reliably tested workarounds let you get a classic, offline local account instead, and the choice you make affects everything from BitLocker recovery to OneDrive sync and feature availability. Background Microsoft...
  7. OneDrive Copilot in Windows: AI file actions in File Explorer

    Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot from the browser into the Windows desktop, adding a set of Copilot file actions directly into OneDrive’s Windows surfaces so subscribers can locate, summarize, compare and interrogate files without opening Office or a web browser—a change that reshapes...
  8. OneDrive Known Folder Move: How Windows Reassigns Folders and How to Reclaim Them

    If you’ve ever set up a new Windows PC or clicked through a Windows update without scrutinizing every prompt, you may have opened File Explorer one day and discovered that your Documents, Desktop or Pictures folders now live inside a OneDrive folder — and that many of those files are quietly...
  9. Windows 10 ESU Enrollment: Secure Updates Through Oct 2026 (Act by Oct 14, 2025)

    Microsoft has given Windows 10 users a narrow, conditional lifeline: if you want to keep receiving security updates after the platform’s official end-of-support date, there’s a single, time-sensitive action you must complete — enroll the eligible PC in Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security...
  10. Seven Windows Features Microsoft Removed (Live Tiles to Maps)

    Microsoft’s OS has been quietly slimming down: a clutch of once-promising Windows features have been deprecated or removed over the past few years, and a number of little-known tools that almost nobody used are now gone for good—some by stealth, others with a public notice. The tidy list that...
  11. Free 12-Month Microsoft 365 Personal for US College Students with Copilot

    Microsoft’s latest back‑to‑school play hands eligible U.S. college students a full, 12‑month Microsoft 365 Personal subscription — including the integrated Copilot AI assistant and 1 TB of OneDrive storage — at no charge, a time‑limited promotional move that accelerates AI exposure on campus...
  12. Free 12-Month Microsoft 365 Personal for U.S. College Students with Copilot

    Microsoft is offering every U.S. college student one year of Microsoft 365 Personal at no cost, a limited-time move that folds the company’s consumer productivity suite and its Copilot AI assistant into a broader education-focused push tied to the White House’s AI Education Task Force and...
  13. Windows 10 End of Support (Oct 14, 2025): ESU Options & Windows 11 Migration

    Microsoft’s official end-of-support date for Windows 10 — October 14, 2025 — is no longer a distant calendar note: it’s a hard deadline that forces millions of users to choose between upgrading to Windows 11, buying time with Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU), or accepting growing...
  14. Move Windows User Folders to a Fast SSD for a Snappier PC

    I moved my Windows user folder to another SSD and the system felt like it shook off months of sluggishness almost overnight. Background The Windows user profile — the folder at C:\Users[YourName] — is the single place where Windows keeps your desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music...
  15. Windows 10 ESU: Enroll by Oct 14, 2025 for 1 Year of Security Updates

    Microsoft has quietly handed Windows 10 users a one‑year safety valve — but only if you act before October 14, 2025 and meet a short checklist to enroll in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. This move buys eligible PCs a single additional year of security‑only updates through...
  16. Windows 10 ESU: One-year security patches before Oct 14, 2025

    Microsoft has quietly given Windows 10 users a lifeline: you can keep receiving security patches for one more year after the official end‑of‑support date — but only if you act before October 14, 2025 and complete Microsoft’s new enrollment flow. The company’s consumer Extended Security Updates...
  17. Free 12-Month Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot for U.S. College Students

    Microsoft is offering U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — with Copilot built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — at no cost if they verify eligibility and enroll by October 31, 2025, a limited-time element of the company’s new Microsoft Elevate...
  18. Microsoft Copilot Free for 12 Months for U.S. College Students

    Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...
  19. Copilot in OneDrive & File Explorer: AI Summaries, Q&A, and Multi-File Compare

    Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chatbox in the browser — it’s now an active assistant inside OneDrive and the Windows file manager, able to summarize documents, answer questions, generate FAQs, and compare up to five files at once, all without opening Office apps. Background / Overview...
  20. Copilot File Actions in Windows Explorer: AI insights for OneDrive files

    Microsoft has quietly moved a major piece of its AI productivity stack out of the browser and into the Windows shell: eligible Microsoft 365 subscribers can now invoke Copilot file actions directly from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center, letting users summarize documents, ask...