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...
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President Trump’s Rose Garden dinner with a who’s‑who of Silicon Valley on September 4, 2025 crystallized a new chapter in industry‑government relations: tech executives publicly pledged vast U.S. investments and education initiatives while pressing for lighter regulatory touch on artificial...
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Satya Nadella’s five short Copilot prompts are less a CEO flex and more a practical playbook for turning generative AI into repeatable executive work — from meeting readiness and project rollups to launch probabilities and time audits — and the implications for Windows and Microsoft 365 admins...
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Microsoft’s surprise move to offer a one‑year safety net for Windows 10 users has become the most time‑sensitive Windows story of the moment: a consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) path is available, enrollment is controlled through a new “Enroll” option in Settings → Windows Update, and the...
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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...
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Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates for mainstream Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC isn’t ready to move to Windows 11, the single most important thing you must do right now is enroll that device in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program or complete...
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Microsoft set a hard deadline for Windows 10 support — October 14, 2025 — and has offered a narrowly scoped lifeline for holdouts: the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that extends security-only patches for one additional year, through October 13, 2026. This article explains...
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Microsoft's decision to retire the Mobile Plans app for Windows marks the end of a small but strategic piece of the company's push to make cellular connectivity a first-class feature on PCs, and it raises immediate questions for users of eSIM-enabled laptops, OEMs, and mobile operators about...
Microsoft Edge's experimental Scareware Blocker is graduating from a single-user popup interrupter to a broader, system-strengthening feature that can block scam sites and — in the Canary channel — optionally share detected scam links and classifications with Microsoft’s Defender SmartScreen...
Microsoft has confirmed that a limited, consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 is rolling out now — an emergency, one‑year safety net that will be available to eligible Windows 10 PCs before the platform’s support cutoff on October 14, 2025. The ESU enrollment appears as...
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Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move...
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Microsoft will stop issuing free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and for home users it’s now a choice between upgrading to Windows 11, paying for a one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, or accepting increasing risk — Microsoft has also published a consumer ESU...
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Not long ago, running a Windows PC without a paid third‑party antivirus felt like leaving your front door open — today, that advice is overdue for a rethink because Windows’ built‑in protections are both better and far more capable than most people realize.
Background
Windows has a long...
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 deadline is real: Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft has opened a time-limited path to buy one more year of security-only updates — but the route, the requirements, and the rollout are uneven enough that millions of users may be...
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Zscaler’s claim that its cloud sees “over half a trillion transactions a day” has suddenly become more than a brag about scale — it’s the center of a fresh privacy controversy after external reports and researcher commentary interpreted CEO remarks to mean Zscaler is using customer logs and full...
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Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025, which means millions of PCs will stop receiving free security updates, feature patches, and technical support — and that looming deadline forces a hard choice: upgrade to Windows 11, buy time with paid protections, migrate to a...
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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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LG’s 2025 OLED evo refresh pushes the company’s premium TVs into two converging frontiers: extreme gaming performance and deep, conversational AI. The new OLED evo family — led by the G5 and the wireless M5 — pairs LG’s Alpha 11 AI Processor Gen2 with a host of display and sound upgrades...
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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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