Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...
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Windows desktop market-share data flipped twice this summer: after StatCounter showed Windows 11 briefly overtaking Windows 10 in July 2025, August’s snapshot reversed some of that gain and put Windows 11 back under the 50% mark while Windows 10 recovered several points—an unexpected wobble with...
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Windows 10’s ascent from cautious upgrade to the world’s most-used desktop operating system finally reached a symbolic milestone in December 2018, when third‑party telemetry showed Windows 10 edging past Windows 7 in global market share. That crossover—reported as 39.22% for Windows 10 versus...
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One month before Windows 10 reaches its official end-of-support date, the migration map unexpectedly shifted: public telemetry shows Windows 10 reclaiming share versus Windows 11, a reversal that complicates Microsoft’s timeline and raises urgent security and deployment questions for consumers...
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Windows 10’s sudden rebound in usage just weeks before end of support has shifted the migration narrative: a late-month rise in Windows 10’s market share has narrowed the gap with Windows 11, exposing a fragmented upgrade landscape that will complicate Microsoft’s push to consolidate users on...
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StatCounter’s August 2025 snapshot produced a deceptively simple headline — Windows 11 slipped below 50% of desktop Windows installations while Windows 10 regained ground — but the data behind that headline, and what it means for users and IT teams as Windows 10 support ends in October, require...
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Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...
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More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 with just weeks to go before Microsoft’s scheduled end-of-support date, according to a dataset Kaspersky shared via a Technology For You write-up — a situation that tightens the window for safe, budgeted migrations and forces...
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StatCounter’s August snapshot delivered a surprise: Windows 11 slipped below the 50% mark while Windows 10 widened its footprint — even as that older OS races toward its October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline.
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The headline numbers are simple but puzzling. StatCounter’s global...
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Windows 11’s recent lead over its predecessor proved to be fragile: Statcounter’s August snapshot shows Windows 11 slipping back below the 50% mark while Windows 10 recovered some ground, yet the newer OS still holds a larger share overall after overtaking Windows 10 in July...
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StatCounter’s latest tracking shows Windows 11 has climbed to roughly the halfway mark of Windows desktop installs — a milestone that reflects accelerating migration away from Windows 10 as Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline approaches.
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Jagran Josh’s roundup that purports to name “the most-used AI chatbots in 2025” landed in inboxes and social feeds with a punchy list—ChatGPT at the top with a jaw‑dropping 46.59 billion “users,” followed by a clutch of U.S. and China‑based rivals—but a closer look shows the headline numbers...
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Microsoft’s move to retire Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has become more than a routine product‑lifecycle note: it has sparked a court challenge that frames the end‑of‑support as a calculated nudge — some would say a shove — toward Windows 11, AI‑optimized hardware, and paid patching options...
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With little more than two months on the clock before Microsoft’s scheduled cutoff for Windows 10, a single consumer’s courtroom challenge has moved a technical lifecycle event into the public-policy arena — and raised urgent practical questions for millions of home and business users about...
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ChatGPT has solidified its dominance as the world’s most widely used AI chatbot, cementing its role as the benchmark for conversational artificial intelligence and redefining how users engage with smart digital assistants across the globe. Fueled by unprecedented market penetration and...
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Numbers rarely lie, but sometimes they stagger out of the bar, tipsy and swearing they saw a unicorn. According to StatCounter—an outfit notorious for peering into the internet’s tea leaves and calling it statistics—Windows 10’s share of US web traffic has tumbled off a digital cliff. In just...
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Ah, Statcounter—the household name for anyone who's ever run into an internet tracking graphic. It's that time of the month again, where Statcounter drops its analytics mic, presenting charts and "market share insights" that send tech bloggers into a feeding frenzy. Articles abound: Windows 10...
In a significant milestone for Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 11 has officially exceeded a 30% market share, marking the first time it has crossed this threshold since its launch in October 2021. According to the latest data from Statcounter, Windows 11 achieved a record high of...
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Somehow we thought this had already happened, but it appears Google's Android has just overtaken Windows as the internet's most popular operating system.
That's according to web analytics firm StatCounter, which on Monday released statistics marking the "milestone in technology history and end...
share: digg facebook twitter Microsoft has sold 350 million Windows 7 licenses in the 18 months since releasing the operating system, the company announced today. About two weeks ago, Windows 7 overtook Windows XP as the most-used OS in the United States, according to numbers from StatCounter –...