windows end of life

Browser-first workflows have flattened the visible differences between Windows, macOS, and Linux for many knowledge workers — but the emerging enterprise conversation shows the OS under the hood is very much still consequential, and in 2026 that reality is nudging some IT teams to seriously...

A longtime Windows user who wiped their drive, spent a year on Linux, and “forgot to miss Windows” isn’t a quirky human-interest aside — it’s a concrete signal of an increasingly practical desktop alternative, driven by Windows 10’s lifecycle shift, maturing compatibility layers, and modern...

The tectonic plates of desktop computing are shifting—quietly, cumulatively, and in ways that matter to IT leaders. What began as curiosity and opportunistic testing in 2025 has become a set of measurable signals: a wave of distro downloads timed to Windows 10’s end of support, rising Linux...

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows — the story many readers are hearing now is not a single-person fad but a broader, measurable shift in how people treat the desktop, driven by Windows 10’s end-of-support, new Windows features that push cloud and AI integration, and the...

Zorin OS 18’s launch has become one of the clearest, most visible signals that a significant number of Windows users are actively testing Linux as a practical alternative — a surge driven by timing, product design, and a hard deadline in the Windows lifecycle. Background Microsoft’s decision to...

Zorin OS 18 rocketed to a million downloads in just over a month — and according to the project, roughly 78% of those downloads were initiated from Windows machines, a clear signal that a large number of Windows 10 users are actively testing Linux as a practical alternative. Background...

Valve has formally signaled the end of an era for legacy Windows desktops: beginning January 1, 2026, the Steam desktop client will no longer be supported on 32‑bit installations of Windows, and the launcher itself has been transitioned to a native 64‑bit build on modern Windows systems. The...

With Windows 10 now officially past its support lifecycle and a string of unsettling update and cloud incidents making headlines, many everyday users and IT pros are asking whether the safe, familiar path forward is still Windows — or if it makes sense to move to Linux, buy new hardware, or...

The year 2025 delivered an unusual kind of obituary list: not people, but products, platforms, and projects that quietly — or spectacularly — reached the end of their road, leaving users, IT teams, and the market to pick up the pieces and ask what these exits say about the direction of consumer...

Zorin OS 18 arrived at the worst possible moment for Microsoft’s desktop ambitions — and for a sizable slice of Windows users that moment became an opportunity to walk away from built‑in AI “helpers,” telemetry anxiety, and forced hardware upgrades. Background / Overview Zorin OS 18 is a...

Linux’s quiet, scattered signals of growth in 2025 suddenly look less like noise and more like a coordinated uptick: download surges for migration‑focused distributions, measurable lifts in web and device telemetry, and pockets of gaming and enterprise traction that together suggest Linux is...

What if the long-promised “year of Linux on the desktop” quietly arrived — not with a headline-grabbing coup but as a creeping, measurable shift in how ordinary people use their computers — and almost nobody noticed? Over the last 12 months a series of small, connected signals has pushed Linux...

When Microsoft quietly closed the books on Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, a predictable cascade of enterprise planning and consumer anxiety followed — and, unexpectedly, a measurable migration toward desktop Linux erupted in its wake. In the five weeks after Zorin Group launched Zorin...

Microsoft’s formal end‑of‑support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has already produced one of the clearest, most measurable desktop‑market ripples of the decade: Zorin OS 18 — a migration‑focused Linux distribution — surpassed one million downloads in just over a month, and the Zorin team...

Zorin OS 18’s launch has turned a calendar event into a visible migration moment: within roughly a month of its release the Zorin Group reports the distribution was downloaded one million times, and the project says roughly 78% of those downloads originated from Windows machines — a striking...

Zorin OS 18 has raced into the headlines with a milestone few Linux distributions ever manage: roughly one million downloads in a little over a month after launch — and, crucially, Zorin Group reports that nearly 78% of those downloads originated from Windows machines, a data point that frames...

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) quietly closed a multi‑year IT modernisation chapter worth roughly £312 million — only for a significant portion of that investment to land squarely on an operating system that Microsoft officially stopped supporting on 14 October...

In public-sector IT, timing is everything—and the UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has just provided a textbook case of what happens when procurement cycles, hardware reality, and vendor lifecycles collide: the department reports having spent approximately £312...

The push to hard‑wire AI and cloud services into mainstream desktop operating systems has pushed privacy, hardware longevity, and user choice to the center of the conversation — and for a growing number of users the practical answer is clear: move to Linux now rather than accept a future of...

Microsoft’s hard deadline for Windows 10 support has produced one of the most consequential PC refresh windows in recent memory — and the winners are not only the familiar Windows OEMs but a notable migration toward Apple MacBooks as an attractive alternative for both consumers and many...