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Employers are buying the tools of an AI-powered workplace faster than employees are comfortable using them, Windows users are rethinking their OS choices after Windows 10’s end-of-life, and a string of product and education updates shows the Microsoft ecosystem — from Excel to Copilot to partner...

Global PC shipments closed the holiday quarter with a surprise surge, but that uptick masks a brewing supply shock that could make 2026 a far more expensive and volatile year for PC buyers and builders than most expected. Background The fourth quarter of 2025 produced an unexpected gain for the...

The end of free, mainstream support for Windows 10 has produced one of the clearest and most measurable jolts the desktop market has seen in years: mainstream switchers are testing alternatives in unprecedented numbers, and two Linux distributions — Zorin OS and Bazzite — have emerged as the...

Dell’s 2024 forecast that “AI PCs” would trigger a broad laptop refresh has proven partly prophetic — but not in the tidy, single-cause way the company pitched. The industry did see a meaningful replacement wave through 2025, driven first by a hard calendar deadline (Windows 10 end-of-support)...

If your business is still running a 2020 PC on Windows 10, you’re no longer debating convenience versus expense — you’re choosing whether to accept an unpatched attack surface, slower AI-enabled workflows, and a growing compliance liability that can reach well beyond IT budgets. Recent industry...

CPU shipments and PC sell‑in climbed sharply in Q3 2025 as a deadline-driven refresh — not normal seasonality — became the dominant market force: Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports client CPU shipments rose 2.2% quarter‑on‑quarter while server CPU shipments jumped roughly 13–14% year‑on‑year, and...

CPU shipments rose again in Q3 2025, and this time the bump looks less like a cyclical blip and more like a reaction to Windows 10’s end-of-life and the practical barriers consumers face when moving to Windows 11. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports a modest 2.2% quarter‑on‑quarter increase in...

The end of free, mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 turns a decade‑old desktop platform into an immediate operational and security challenge for organisations — but treated correctly it can also be the catalyst for a disciplined, cost‑effective modernisation of end‑user...

This week’s 404 Media podcast episode distilled three converging stories that matter to anyone who cares about where we get facts, how we keep Windows PCs secure, and what venture capital is quietly building to reshape the social web: Elon Musk’s new AI encyclopedia Grokipedia and the messy...

Fujitsu’s decision to continue offering built‑in optical drives — including Blu‑ray/BDXL options — in its new FMV Note A family underscores a striking market divergence: while the West moved on from internal disc trays years ago, a sizeable segment of Japanese buyers still values physical media...

Worldwide PC shipments climbed sharply in Q3 2025 as enterprise- and education-driven refresh programs tied to Microsoft’s Windows 10 end-of-support collided with an accelerated vendor push toward “AI PCs,” producing a quarter in which shipments rose meaningfully even as consumer demand remained...

Global PC shipments climbed in the third quarter of 2025 as a wave of Windows 10 end‑of‑support (EoS) refreshes intersected with vendor pushes for AI‑capable hardware, producing an uneasy mix of strong enterprise buying, muted consumer sales and notable regional divergence. Background / Overview...

Apple’s hardware refresh centered on the new M5 chip dominates today’s headlines, but the week’s other major stories — Microsoft’s official end of support for Windows 10 and Walmart’s move to let shoppers buy directly through ChatGPT — are just as consequential for PC users, IT teams and...

Windows 10’s retirement on October 14, 2025 has created a hard deadline that many users ignored until the last minute — and Google has moved quickly to turn that anxiety into a marketing and product opportunity: convert aging, unsupported Windows PCs into Chromebooks with ChromeOS Flex or push...

Windows 10 reached the end of its vendor-supported life today, leaving a vast portion of the global installed base in a new and immediate risk category — and recent vendor telemetry plus industry surveys suggest that millions of endpoints will remain unpatched and exposed unless organisations...

The Windows PC market is at an inflection point: with Windows 10 reaching end of support on October 14, 2025, Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC push and the steady maturation of Windows on Arm have collided into a single practical question for IT buyers — is now the right time to embrace Arm-based PCs for...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

Chyron’s Toolbox 4 represents a pragmatic, production‑focused refresh aimed at closing the gap between everyday PC/web content and live broadcast workflows by adding SDI/NDI capture, Windows 11 compatibility, full HD output, and a more flexible content‑grabber toolset that producers can...

Raspberry Pi’s new 500+ keyboard PC—bundled with NComputing’s LEAF OS—arrives as a purpose-built, low-cost enterprise endpoint aimed squarely at organizations wrestling with Windows 10’s looming end-of-support and the complex, expensive migration to Windows 11. The device pairs a modern...

PC shipments to the United States cooled in Q2 2025, slipping 1.4% year‑on‑year to about 18.6 million units, even as the commercial sector expanded and vendors doubled down on marketing AI-capable PCs ahead of the Windows 10 end‑of‑support deadline. Background The broader story behind the soft...