A single misaligned label shouldn't cost an IT department an afternoon — or a week — but when administrative staff applied their own naming scheme to 60 of 180 newly built Chromebooks, the result was a classic school IT meltdown: hours of rework, broken inventory integrity, and an avoidable...
Microsoft’s 2025 cleanup of Windows reached deep into the operating system this year, touching everything from long‑standing network services to small in‑box consumer apps — and in many cases the company didn’t just deprecate functionality, it removed binaries from fresh images or published firm...
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Microsoft has quietly set an expiration date for Windows 11 SE — the slimmed-down, education-focused edition of Windows — announcing that the OS will receive no further feature updates or security patches after October 2026. Background / Overview
Windows 11 SE was launched in 2021 as Microsoft’s...
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Microsoft’s announcement that support for Windows 11 SE will officially end in October 2026 marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of the company's strategy for education-focused operating systems. After just five years on the market, the tailored OS designed as a direct competitor to Chrome OS...
Microsoft’s recent announcement to discontinue support for Windows 11 SE by October 2026 has sent ripples through the education technology community and stands as a testament to the volatile nature of the operating system market, especially when it comes to lightweight platforms designed for...
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After a brief and closely watched tenure in the education technology market, Microsoft has officially announced the end-of-life for Windows 11 SE, the lightweight operating system once touted as the company’s answer to ChromeOS. Support will conclude in October 2026, closing a chapter on one of...
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Microsoft’s recent decision to end Windows 11 SE signals another pivotal shift in the company’s long and contentious battle for dominance in the education technology sector. Introduced with fanfare in late 2021 as a “cloud-first operating system” designed for low-cost PCs in classrooms, Windows...
Microsoft’s decision to retire Windows 11 SE marks a pivotal shift in its classroom technology strategy, sparking a mix of concern and curiosity among students, educators, IT administrators, and the broader PC industry. Introduced as a stripped-down, education-focused edition of Windows 11...
The sound of a closing door echoes across Microsoft’s educational strategy today as the company formally ends support for Windows 11 SE, its ambitious but ultimately short-lived competitor to ChromeOS. Two years after its high-profile launch, Windows 11 SE finds itself relegated to the footnotes...
Just over three years after its understated arrival in late 2021, Microsoft’s effort to challenge the dominance of Chromebooks in classrooms—Windows 11 SE—has come to a definitive end. This chapter in Microsoft’s long quest to engineer a worthy Chrome OS alternative is closing not with a bang...
As we hurtle toward an increasingly digital education landscape, many schools are facing a significant IT challenge: Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 10 from 15 October 2025. With approximately 93% of secondary schools and 85% of primary schools in England relying on this operating system...
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