Raspberry Pi and NComputing have announced a strategic collaboration to bring the Raspberry Pi 500+ all‑in‑one keyboard computer to enterprise customers, positioning the device—paired with NComputing’s LEAF OS—as a practical, low‑cost alternative to legacy Windows 10 PCs as organizations...
Microsoft’s decision to end routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has pushed an already fraught conversation about hardware lifecycles, planned obsolescence, and user choice into the open — and retailers and refurbishers are responding with an unexpected pivot: turn that...
Zorin OS 18 Beta arrives at a pivotal moment: with Windows 10’s extended lifespan ending on October 14, 2025, millions of users face either an enforced upgrade to Windows 11, costly hardware refreshes, or the security risks of running an unsupported OS — and Zorin OS 18 Beta positions itself as...
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As Windows 10 approaches its October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline, researchers and industry observers are forecasting a concentrated surge in PC gaming hardware spending even as broader PC shipments show mixed signals — a shift driven as much by Microsoft’s strict Windows 11 hardware...
Microsoft’s timing is deliberate: with Windows 10’s end-of-support deadline looming, Redmond is using the upgrade window to reposition Copilot+ PCs — and in particular Arm-powered machines such as the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 — as not just optional refresh buys but a strategic...
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Built for speed and ready to scale, the push toward Windows 11 Pro devices—especially Copilot+ systems and Intel vPro® machines powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra—is no longer marketing fluff: it’s the practical backbone of a modern, hybrid SMB strategy that combines measurable performance gains, new...
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Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support has become a high‑profile pivot for the PC industry — but the expected consumer‑led buying spree never materialized in the United States. Industry trackers show businesses driving the current refresh cycle while consumers largely sit...
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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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Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally important security payload: this cycle addresses roughly 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure, Hyper‑V and related components, including several critical remote‑code‑execution (RCE) and elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) flaws...
Microsoft’s next operating system may not exist outside of a concept video, but the ideas in Abdi’s latest Windows 12 mockup capture a broader moment in PC computing: Windows 10’s upcoming end-of-support deadline, a swinging market-share pendulum between Win10 and Win11, and Microsoft’s own...
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CEDIA 2025’s floor hum was equal parts audiophile lust and pragmatic urgency: manufacturers showed TVs and speakers that think with you, while a hard calendar date—Windows 10’s end of support—made clear that households must plan hardware and software moves now. Rich’s on‑air roundup from Denver...
WINUX is, in practice, Ubuntu with a very convincing Windows 11 costume — and that disguise is the point: for many Windows 10 users facing the October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline, WINUX (also marketed as Linuxfx/Winux) promises the familiarity of Windows while running entirely on Linux...
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Microsoft’s next major Windows chapter is already shaping up as a defining moment for the PC era: rumors and early leaks point to a profoundly AI-centric, security-first, and modular operating system—commonly referred to as Windows 12—that could reshape how people interact with their computers...
HP’s latest quarter reads like a watershed moment: revenue and unit trends that outpaced expectations, a sharpened focus on AI-capable PCs, aggressive supply‑chain moves to sidestep tariff risk, and a targeted buy of Humane’s AI assets that accelerates device‑level AI strategy—taken together...
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A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in California has turned what many expected to be a routine operating‑system lifecycle event into a live legal test of forced obsolescence, corporate market strategy, and the practical limits of vendor control over security for hundreds of millions of PCs. The...
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Iron Mountain says the Windows 10 end-of-life is already reshaping IT asset disposition: secure data sanitization, higher volumes of device decommissioning, and a shift toward treating refresh cycles as strategic value-recovery opportunities rather than one-off disposal events.
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Ingram Micro’s latest investor call and fiscal results leave little doubt that the company is riding two concurrent tailwinds: the imminent October 14, 2025 end of support for Windows 10 — which is accelerating commercial device refreshes — and the gradual emergence of AI-driven demand that is...
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Microsoft has set a firm date: Windows 11, version 23H2 (consumer editions) will stop receiving security and quality updates on November 11, 2025, forcing Home and Pro users who remain on that release to upgrade or accept growing security, compliance, and operational risk. Background
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Linuxfx is the most convincing Windows‑like Linux distribution I’ve seen: it ships a Windows‑style desktop, ships on an Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS base with a modern kernel, bundles Steam/Heroic and Wine, and aims to make moving off Windows painless for users worried about the October 2025 Windows 10...
A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in California has turned a routine vendor lifecycle announcement into a potential legal test of forced obsolescence, platform power and the economics of the AI era — and it puts a hard deadline, October 14, 2025, at the center of the debate. The complaint, filed...