Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025, which means millions of PCs will stop receiving free security updates, feature patches, and technical support — and that looming deadline forces a hard choice: upgrade to Windows 11, buy time with paid protections, migrate to a...
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The University of Manchester is telling staff and students to arrange their Windows 11 upgrade as soon as possible because Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, and continuing to run an unsupported OS will expose campus machines to increased cyber risk.
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Microsoft’s decision to collapse Price Levels A–D into a single, web‑published price for Online Services will simplify licensing on paper but shift real economic value away from many large enterprise customers — a change that takes effect for renewals and new purchases on November 1, 2025 and...
Microsoft has confirmed what many household and small-business PC owners have been bracing for: the October 2025 Patch Tuesday release will be the last free monthly security update for mainstream Windows 10; after October 14, 2025, Windows 10 devices that are not enrolled in an Extended Security...
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Microsoft’s formal retirement of Windows 10 is now official and imminent: free support and monthly security updates end on October 14, 2025, and the company has rolled out a consumer-focused bridge — the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — to give households and small...
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Microsoft's late-summer move to soften the blow of Windows 10's end-of-support is a rare mix of relief and a reminder: the clock is still running. The company has rolled out a consumer-focused Extended Security Updates (ESU) program that gives many Windows 10 users a one-year security lifeline —...
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 rollout has become the most consequential — and controversial — technology migration of the decade, one that now sits at the intersection of cloud strategy, AI ambitions, and investor calculus. What began as a measured, security-centric upgrade has devolved into a...
Microsoft’s move to let Windows 10 be deployed as a cloud-streamed OS through Azure-powered virtualization services marks a decisive step in putting the full Windows desktop inside enterprise cloud operations—and it changes how IT teams should think about provisioning, licensing, and security...
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Microsoft's countdown to the end of Windows 10 support has moved from calendar date to a consumer-facing prompt: a 60‑day warning that leaves millions of PCs with a clear deadline and a narrow set of paths forward to stay protected, migrate to Windows 11, or pay to extend security updates for a...
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Windows 10’s official support clock is ticking down, but for many users the practical choice isn’t a rush to upgrade — it’s a careful, measured decision to stay where stability, compatibility, and control still work best for them. The operating system will reach end of support on October 14...
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Microsoft’s plan to add Linux and Android subsystem support to Windows 365 Cloud PCs — long visible on the Microsoft 365 roadmap — resurfaced in headlines recently, but the full story is more nuanced than a single preview date. Microsoft documented nested virtualization for Cloud PCs (the...
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Microsoft’s move to put the full Windows desktop into the cloud—branded as Windows 365 and marketed around the new “Cloud PC” concept—changed how organizations and users think about Windows devices: instead of tying a personalized Windows experience to a single laptop or desktop, Microsoft...
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Microsoft’s decision to lock Windows 11 behind a strict hardware gate is about to create a mass of usable-but-unsupported PCs — and the fallout will be technical, financial, and environmental.
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When Microsoft first announced Windows 11, the company framed the new release as a leap...
Microsoft’s Windows team is sketching a future in which your PC is less a passive tool and more a conversational partner — one that lives in the cloud, understands voice and vision, and uses context to anticipate and act on your intent. That is the core of Pavan Davuluri’s message: Windows will...
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Microsoft will host the next installment of its Windows Office Hours on Thursday, August 21, 2025 — a one-hour, chat-based Q&A session aimed squarely at IT professionals managing Windows devices and modern endpoint estates. The event runs from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time and will be...
Microsoft’s Windows Office Hours returns on August 21, 2025, as a one‑hour, chat‑based Q&A focused on accelerating Windows 11 adoption, operationalizing Zero Trust, keeping fleets up to date, and moving workloads toward cloud-native models while respecting on‑premises and hybrid constraints...
Microsoft has pushed Windows 10, version 22H2 — Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) to the Release Preview Channel for Insiders on August 14, 2025, delivering a mix of targeted bug fixes, enterprise-focused features, and what Microsoft describes as the general availability of a major management...
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Deep dive — Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) to the Release Preview Channel
Published: August 14, 2025
Today Microsoft released Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) to the Release Preview Channel for Insiders on Windows 10, version 22H2. This flight is a relatively...
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One week after Microsoft released its short “vision” video for the future of Windows, Pavan Davuluri — the executive directly responsible for Windows product development — laid out, in clear and practical terms, how on-device AI, multimodal inputs, and cloud orchestration will reshape the...
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Microsoft will stop providing security updates and technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that deadline forces a decision: upgrade, replace, pay to extend, or accept rising risk as the OS moves into unsupported territory. This article breaks down what “end of support” actually...
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