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PCMag’s year‑end ledger of the services and hardware that “died in 2025” reads like a map of an industry reshaping itself around scale, AI compute, and product consolidation — from the calendar‑driven retirement of Windows 10 to the quiet death of novelty gadgets and the abrupt removal of...

2025 closed like a slow-motion exhale across the tech industry: a year when familiar software, speculative gadgets, and long-lived services reached their finish line, sometimes on schedule and sometimes by executive fiat, and left users, IT shops, and policymakers grappling with security...

I still run a Windows 10 PC in my living room because it does exactly what I need—and with a careful, layered approach I’ve kept it safe even after Microsoft’s official support ended on October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Windows 10 reached its official end-of-support date on October 14...

2025 closed the books on a surprising number of products, platforms, and experiments — from the calendar-driven death of an operating system that powered millions of PCs to the quiet collapse of trend-chasing AI gadgets and the wholesale reallocation of hardware supply toward data‑center...

The end of mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 reshaped the PC market and the decisions facing IT teams, consumers and PC makers, turning what had been a slow-moving migration into a year-long rush: a surge of PC refresh purchases, an industry-wide debate about hardware...

Microsoft has set a hard line under a decade-long chapter of desktop computing: Windows 10’s support window is closed, and Windows 11 is being remade as a native AI platform — a shift that matters differently in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, and remote towns across Tanzania than it does in Silicon...

The end of free support for Windows 10 has produced one of the clearest, most visible waves of Windows-to-Linux curiosity in years: Zorin OS 18, timed to the October 14, 2025 cutoff, registered a rapid, headline-grabbing surge in downloads — a milestone Zorin itself framed as evidence that...

Microsoft’s latest moves leave Windows 10 loyalists squeezed between nostalgia and necessity, and the company’s directional nudges — from shuttering Insider Beta pathways to full‑screen upgrade prompts and a paid one‑year safety net — make staying put an increasingly costly and risky option...

Microsoft's post‑Windows 10 playbook is becoming more visible — and for some users that visibility looks like control slipping away. Recent hands‑on reports and forum sightings show the familiar Settings switch labeled Pause updates for 7 days appearing greyed out on some Windows 10 PCs that are...

Microsoft’s hard deadline for Windows 10 support has done more than close a chapter—it has created a practical fulcrum for CIOs deciding whether to treat the PC refresh cycle as a routine capital project or as the moment to reshape the endpoint as an AI-first productivity platform. Organizations...

Microsoft’s next big Windows moment—widely referred to in leaks and forum chatter as “Windows 12”—remains, for now, an industry rumor rather than an announced product, but the timing of Windows 10’s end-of-support and Microsoft’s public push for AI‑ready hardware have created fertile ground for...

Millions of PCs still boot Windows 10 past Microsoft’s cut‑off, and that choice now carries real, immediate risk: routine security updates stopped on October 14, 2025, leaving non‑enrolled machines exposed to newly discovered vulnerabilities unless owners enroll in Extended Security Updates...

Microsoft’s long-running safety net for Windows 10 — the monthly security updates that quietly fixed the most dangerous bugs — has been withdrawn, and that shift changes the risk calculus for millions of PCs and the organisations that rely on them. The headline is simple: Windows 10 no longer...

Microsoft’s push to move the Windows ecosystem forward has shifted into high gear: with Windows 10’s official end-of-support date now passed and a targeted, server-side campaign nudging millions toward Windows 11, the company is making the upgrade as visible — and as time-sensitive — as possible...

Chrome will probably keep working on Windows 10 for a while, but the underlying safety net is shrinking and the clock is real — plan now to avoid being cut off later. Background / Overview Windows 10 reached its formal end-of-support milestone on October 14, 2025, when Microsoft stopped shipping...

Microsoft has quietly moved from a selective rollout to an explicit “seeker” push: if your PC meets Windows 11’s eligibility rules, you can now choose to download and install Windows 11, version 25H2 directly from Settings > Windows Update — and Microsoft is encouraging both Windows 10 and...

Microsoft’s support clock for Windows 10 has officially run out, and HP’s step‑by‑step upgrade briefing is the practical playbook many users and IT teams will follow as they move to Windows 11 or adopt a short‑term Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge. The core facts are simple and...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 is still free for qualifying Windows 10 PCs, but the company’s strict hardware checks have left a large installed base officially “incompatible.” For many users the answer isn’t necessarily “buy new hardware” — there are well‑documented, practical ways to move to Windows...

Organisations facing the end of Windows 10 support now have a clear, pragmatic option to protect operations and buy time for a controlled Windows 11 migration: virtualisation — used strategically — can deliver centrally managed Windows 11 desktops to legacy endpoints while IT teams sequence...

Windows 11 has just recorded another milestone among PC gamers, but the headline hides a stubborn and consequential reality: while Valve’s November Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows Windows 11 now running on roughly two-thirds of Steam clients, a substantial minority — nearly one-third of...