Microsoft’s planned one‑year lifeline for Windows 10 users is live — but don’t be surprised if your PC still doesn’t show the “Enroll now” option in Settings. Microsoft has pushed a staged rollout of the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment experience into Windows Update, and an...
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Microsoft has quietly folded generative AI into Excel’s calculation engine with a native worksheet function — =COPILOT(...) — that accepts plain‑language prompts, reads cell ranges as context, and returns live, spillable outputs directly into the spreadsheet grid. Early previews show it can...
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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...
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Microsoft’s latest move to shepherd Windows 10 users into safer ground lands as both relief and pressure: a one‑year, largely free Extended Security Updates (ESU) lifeline that lets many holdouts avoid an immediate upgrade — but only if they enroll, often by signing into Microsoft services —...
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Most Windows users don’t realize how many practical ways there are to open, preview, and even edit .ai files without paying for Adobe Illustrator—and which of those methods preserve vectors, fonts, and layers well enough for real projects. In short: if an Illustrator file was saved with PDF...
A single sports image page and a quietly written obituary tell a bigger story about how local journalism actually gets made—and for many newsrooms, the glue holding that story together is a Windows PC on a deadline desk, a sideline laptop on battery power, and a carefully tuned workflow that...
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Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, after which the app will become read‑only and will no longer receive updates, fixes, or sync functionality — Microsoft is directing all users to migrate to the unified OneNote on Windows (the...
Microsoft is pulling the plug on the legacy OneNote app that shipped with Windows 10: beginning October 14, 2025, OneNote for Windows 10 (the UWP “legacy” client) will reach end of support and be placed into a read‑only state, and Microsoft is actively steering users and organizations toward the...
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Microsoft has quietly changed one of Excel’s oldest conventions: now you can call an AI assistant from inside a worksheet cell the same way you call SUM or VLOOKUP — with a new COPILOT function that accepts plain‑language prompts, references ranges and tables, and returns dynamic, spillable...
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Microsoft's latest change to the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile experience on iOS—which converts the app into a file preview and Copilot chat wrapper that redirects editing tasks to standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps—represents a deliberate shift in how the company structures mobile...
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Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is urging users and organizations to migrate to the newer OneNote on Windows app now to avoid losing editing and sync functionality when the legacy app becomes read-only...
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Windows ships with a lot of sensible defaults — and a surprising number of questionable ones — and MakeUseOf’s recent roundup of “10 Windows settings I never leave on default” is a useful checklist for anyone who values privacy, stability, and fewer surprise interruptions.
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The Windows 11 Desktop in the 25H2 era is familiar territory with a careful polish: it behaves like Windows 10’s Desktop in the essentials, but Microsoft has refreshed iconography, simplified the right‑click context menus, added a daily Windows Spotlight wallpaper with a “Learn about this...
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I’ve been putting off the full switch to Windows 11 — and I’m not alone: recent developments from Microsoft have made it rational for many users to stay on Windows 10 for now. The vendor’s rollout of a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) option, growing reports of performance and stability...
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Microsoft has formally told the public that the October 2025 security update will be the last monthly security rollup for a broad swath of Windows 10 releases — and it has given consumers a narrow, time-limited set of ways to keep receiving security fixes for one more year...
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Microsoft’s deadline is now fixed: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and with it comes a complex, staggered set of follow‑ups that will shape PC security, upgrade plans, and procurement decisions for consumers and enterprises alike. The headline is simple — the OS will...
Microsoft’s latest message to Windows 10 users is stark and unambiguous: the regular monthly security updates that have kept this decade-old OS safe will stop after October 14, 2025, and consumers must choose — upgrade, enroll in a short-term Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or accept...
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Windows 10’s official support clock is ticking down, but for many users the practical choice isn’t a rush to upgrade — it’s a careful, measured decision to stay where stability, compatibility, and control still work best for them. The operating system will reach end of support on October 14...
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Microsoft’s Windows could reclaim its place as the undisputed productivity platform in 2025 — but only if Microsoft stops prioritizing marketing nudges and gimmicks and instead delivers focused, enterprise-grade features that solve real workplace pain points now, not sometime next quarter...