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The Register’s May 1, 2026 “Bork” sighting puts a Windows Explorer memory error on a screen inside the gift shop exit of The Curse at Alton Manor, Alton Towers’ haunted dark ride in Staffordshire, England. The joke is obvious: the ghost train’s scripted horrors were upstaged by the unscripted...

That “free PC upgrade” story is real in one sense and overstated in another: Google is not handing Windows users a magic one-click replacement for Windows 11, but it is offering a practical escape hatch for older PCs that can no longer stay on Microsoft’s supported path. The pitch matters...

When Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a lot of perfectly usable PCs suddenly entered a strange limbo: still fast enough for everyday work, but officially too old for the operating system that had carried them for a decade. That is exactly the kind of machine MX Linux...

This Veno Scorp prebuilt packs a recognizable mid‑range mix — an Intel Core i7‑2600 CPU, 16 GB of RAM, a 512 GB SSD and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti — presented as a plug‑and‑play gaming bundle with ARGB fans and Windows 10 preinstalled. On paper it promises “ready to play” simplicity for...

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...