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Mozilla’s support path for users running pre–Windows 10 desktops has reached a clear milestone: Firefox 115 ESR will be the last maintained Firefox build for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, and Mozilla’s support documentation now states that security updates for those legacy installations...

Windows 11’s climb from a cautious, hardware‑constrained debut to the world’s most used desktop Windows release is now official: StatCounter‑tracked data show Windows 11 overtook Windows 10 in global share in mid‑2025, crossing the 50% threshold and leaving Windows 10 behind for the first time...

Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey has quietly become one of the clearest early indicators of how the PC ecosystem is shifting—and the most recent snapshots show Windows 11 firmly in the lead on Steam while Windows 10 still keeps a meaningful foothold among active gamers. )...

Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 11 has passed the 1 billion‑user mark landed as both milestone and mirror: a headline achievement that confirms broad platform reach, and a prompt to scrutinize what “1 billion users” actually measures and why it matters now. The company revealed the figure...

Microsoft quietly confirmed a milestone this earnings season: Windows 11 has crossed the one‑billion user threshold — and, by Microsoft’s own reckoning, it got there faster than Windows 10. Background / Overview Windows 11 was made broadly available on October 5, 2021, and Microsoft announced...

A new University of Sydney analysis shows Microsoft Copilot’s AI‑generated news summaries systematically under‑represent Australian local and independent media, favoring large national and international outlets instead — a pattern that risks diverting referral traffic, eroding byline visibility...

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’s strategy to move the world onto Windows 10 created two distinct narratives: a rapid and measurable uptick in enterprise adoption, and at the same time a public relations fiasco over how that push was executed. New and contemporaneous industry research shows businesses embraced...

Windows 11 has quietly — and then not so quietly — become the dominant desktop operating system among Steam users, a shift that marks a dramatic reversal of the Windows 10-era balance and signals real consequences for gamers, PC builders, and IT managers alike. Valve’s monthly Hardware &...

For the first time since its debut, Windows 7’s grip on the desktop has slipped below 50%, a milestone that reads like a swan song for a once-ubiquitous operating system — but the numbers behind that headline deserve scrutiny. 2017-era web-analytics revisions from NetMarketShare produced a...

Windows 11 has finally pulled ahead of Windows 10 in headline market-share figures — but the victory is both narrower and more complicated than it looks. StatCounter’s recent desktop dataset shows Windows 11 as the plurality desktop Windows version, while a huge, stubborn base of Windows 10...

Windows 10 remains the operating system on roughly a billion active PCs worldwide even after Microsoft formally ended mainstream support, a stubborn reality underscored by Dell’s recent investor commentary and public telemetry that together paint a fragmented, messy migration from a decade-old...

Valve is moving the Steam client on Windows to 64‑bit only, and the company has set a firm cutoff for legacy 32‑bit Windows updates: existing 32‑bit clients will receive updates only until January 1, 2026, after which Valve will stop issuing fixes, features, and support for 32‑bit Windows...

Dell's blunt assessment during its latest earnings call — that the Windows 11 transition is trailing the Windows 10 migration by roughly 10–12 percentage points — crystallizes a quiet but consequential reality for the PC market: the upgrade cycle that once reliably boosted OEM sales now looks...

More people are still running Windows XP and Windows 7 than many headlines imply — not because those systems are ideal, but because compatibility, cost and inertia still matter to millions of users and organisations worldwide. Background / Overview When Microsoft ended mainstream servicing for...

Apple’s quietly timed push to position macOS as the easiest escape hatch from the Windows 10 end‑of‑support deadline has sharpened a migration choice millions of users now face: upgrade to Windows 11, buy new Windows hardware, enroll in a short‑term Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or...

Microsoft’s push to make Windows a cloud‑account‑first OS has hit a new milestone: the interactive Windows 11 setup (OOBE) is being hardened so that casual, one‑line bypasses to create purely local accounts are disappearing — and that reality is pushing some privacy‑minded users to consider the...

The PC market’s summer rebound was no accident: a hard October cutoff for Windows 10 support, strategic inventory moves around shifting U.S. tariff policy, and a nascent push toward on‑device AI combined to deliver a measurable jump in global shipments — and analysts say this is only the opening...

Microsoft has cut the ribbon on a formal end to Windows 10 support — but for most home users Microsoft has also opened a short, tightly scoped lifeline: the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that can keep eligible Windows 10 PCs receiving security-only patches through October 13...

Microsoft's decision to keep Microsoft Defender Antivirus receiving definition and detection updates on Windows 10 for years after the operating system's official end-of-support does reduce one vector of risk — but it is emphatically not a replacement for ongoing OS security patches, feature...