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A Southern California man’s lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to keep Windows 10 receiving free updates has turned a routine product lifecycle milestone into a high‑stakes legal and policy flashpoint that touches security, competition, environmental, and consumer‑rights questions—less than...

Microsoft will end support for Windows 11 SE in October 2026, leaving school fleets that adopted the education-focused SKU without security patches, feature updates, or technical assistance after that date. Background and overview Windows 11 SE was launched in late 2021 as Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has made a clear, consequential distinction in the lifecycles of its platform and browser: Windows 10’s operating system support ends on October 14, 2025, but Microsoft Edge and the WebView2 runtime will continue to receive updates on Windows 10 (22H2) through at least October 2028 — a...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego has turned what Microsoft calls a routine product lifecycle milestone into a flashpoint over security, consumer choice and the company’s AI strategy—alleging that ending free Windows 10 support will abandon as many as hundreds of millions of...

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...

A Southern California resident has filed suit against Microsoft seeking to force the company to continue free security updates for Windows 10 — a legal challenge that crystallizes the technical, economic and environmental frictions surrounding the October 14, 2025 end-of-support milestone...

A single consumer’s courtroom challenge has transformed Microsoft’s planned Windows 10 sunset from a scheduled lifecycle event into a high-stakes debate about security, forced obsolescence, and how dominant platform vendors manage transitions to AI‑centric ecosystems. The complaint—filed in...

When Microsoft set October 14, 2025 as the end-of-support date for Windows 10, many home users faced a stark choice: upgrade to Windows 11, buy new hardware, or run an increasingly exposed system. Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program changes that calculation: eligible...

Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem kept up a steady drumbeat of wins and weirdness this week: a puzzling Game Bar regression that appears to blunt performance on some AMD Ryzen X3D rigs, fresh Windows 11 preview builds pushing more Control Panel settings into Settings, a major Copilot/AI push that...

Microsoft’s decision to end routine support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has suddenly become the subject of a courtroom showdown—and the consequences reach far beyond one plaintiff's grievance: millions of users face security risks, confusing enrollment rules for Extended Security Updates...

Microsoft’s slow-but-steady retirement of Windows 10 has accelerated into a clear endgame: the company has shut down the Windows 10 Beta testing channel, confirmed a hard end-of-support date for the platform, and rolled out a narrowly scoped consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that...

The countdown toward Windows 10’s official end of life has long felt like the slow passing of an era, punctuated by warnings and gnawing uncertainty for millions of users still loyal to the venerable operating system. Yet even as the last months tick away, a new twist in Microsoft’s support...

Microsoft has set the stage for a transformative second half of the year with the announcement and rollout of new Windows Insider Preview updates across the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels. These fresh builds bring a wealth of fixes, enhancements, and feature experiments that not only sharpen the...

Microsoft has quietly confirmed a welcome twist for holdouts on Windows 10: a single consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) license, tied to your personal Microsoft account, can cover up to 10 PCs—plus you don’t have to pay the previously announced $30 if you opt to sync settings with the...

A recent security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-8581, has been discovered in Google Chrome's Extensions component. This flaw could potentially allow remote attackers to leak cross-origin data by persuading users to perform specific actions on a crafted HTML page. Google has addressed...

A critical security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-8578, has been discovered in Google Chrome's Cast component, affecting versions prior to 139.0.7258.66. This "use after free" flaw poses significant risks, including potential heap corruption and arbitrary code execution, if exploited by...

A critical security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-53786, has been discovered in hybrid deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server. This flaw allows attackers with local administrative access to escalate their privileges within connected cloud environments, posing significant risks to...

The release of Windows XP in 2001 marked a seismic shift in the evolution of personal computing, bridging the awkward past of flaky home operating systems with the robust, business-grade technology that would become ubiquitous across both living rooms and office parks around the world...

Microsoft is issuing a stark reminder to the developer community: support for Visual Studio 2015 is drawing to a close, marking the end of an era for one of the company’s most influential software development platforms. As the deadline looms on October 14—coinciding with the retirement of...

Microsoft is preparing to make a seismic shift in the Office productivity ecosystem by phasing out several popular voice-enabled features from older Office 365 versions by January 2026. The abruptness of this change is reverberating far beyond individual users—entire organizations now face a...