Purdue University Northwest’s IT reminder is a timely, practical warning: Microsoft has scheduled Windows 10 end‑of‑support for October 14, 2025, and campus machines must be upgraded to Windows 11 or replaced — older hardware that cannot meet Windows 11 requirements will need to be retired or...
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Microsoft's announcement to end support for Windows 10 in October 2025 has prompted institutions worldwide to transition to Windows 11. The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) is proactively addressing this change by mandating that all university-owned Windows devices...
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In a sweeping technological overhaul poised to impact tens of thousands of students, the University of Texas is set to make Microsoft 365 accounts the official email address for all current students. Commencing Sunday, this transition signifies a notable shift in how the university communicates...
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As Microsoft’s official end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 approaches, organizations and individual users globally are preparing for a transition that will reverberate through IT departments, security teams, and administrative offices alike. Nowhere is this shift more pronounced than within...
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Australia’s University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC), a public research institution rapidly gaining recognition for its innovation, is embarking on an ambitious migration of its core infrastructure workloads to Microsoft Azure. This move, detailed in recent reports and official statements, marks...
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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, universities must balance the demand for modern productivity tools with rigorous privacy and compliance obligations. Nowhere is this more apparent than in educational institutions’ deployment and management of Microsoft 365—a platform that has...
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If there’s one thing modern students have gotten used to, it’s the digital sprawl—the ever-growing accumulation of lecture notes, TikTok-laced group projects, PDFs of textbooks they’ll never read, and draft upon draft of resumes. All of it, until now, has found a cozy, free resting place in the...
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University IT departments are facing a pivotal question: Does your University PC need upgrading to Windows 11? As institutions balance innovation with reliability, the decision to move to Microsoft's latest operating system is rarely one-size-fits-all.
Windows 11: What’s New and Why It Matters...