windows end of life

Zorin OS 18 arrives as a direct, deliberate answer to the Windows 10 end‑of‑support problem—and for many users it represents the most realistic path to keep older PCs secure, productive, and out of landfill without buying new hardware. Background / Overview Microsoft’s support calendar 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...

Pennsylvania officials and local groups have joined a broader U.S. campaign pressing Microsoft to reverse or soften its plan to end routine, automatic security updates for Windows 10—arguing the move will expose millions of machines to cyber risk, force premature hardware replacement, and...

PC shipments climbed again in the third quarter of 2025 — but the recovery is uneven: global volumes reached roughly 75.8 million units, up about 9.4% year‑on‑year, while regional patterns, tariff shocks, education refresh cycles and a halting enterprise migration to Windows 11 have combined to...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates and routine technical support on 14 October 2025, and millions of users must act now to avoid an expanding security and compatibility risk. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar confirms that...

Genpact’s new Insurance Policy Suite is a clear statement that the vendor and consulting arms of the insurance technology market are moving past proof‑of‑concepts and toward agentic automation: a four‑module, Microsoft‑backed product that promises to automate much of the pre‑bind underwriting...

This week’s Prospect Weekly Roundup sketched three stories that converge on power, choice, and the friction between public promises and private capacity: Naomi Bethune’s dispatch from Boston on Mayor Michelle Wu’s runaway re‑election—and what her dominance says about political power at the...

A surprising headline claiming a “shock revival” of Windows 7 has spread through the tech press and social feeds as the industry counts down to Windows 10’s end-of-support milestone — but a careful look at the telemetry, vendor positions, and third‑party patching activity shows a far more...

If your PC is still running Windows 10, the calendar is no longer a distant concern — it's a deadline with real security consequences: Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, feature fixes, and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that shift raises...

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, ending routine security patches, feature updates, and direct technical assistance for a platform that has powered millions of PCs worldwide — but Microsoft is offering a set of stopgap options, incentives and cloud pathways designed...

Microsoft’s deadline is now unavoidable: Windows 10 will stop receiving regular security updates on October 14, 2025, and the immediate fallout in India—where millions of machines still run Windows 10—has forced consumers, small businesses, and large organisations into a compressed set of...

Google just turned a routine search-session into an advertisement for platform migration: users visiting Google.com on Windows 10 have reported a prominent pop-up urging them to “Time for a new laptop? Get Chromebook Plus,” explicitly referencing that security fixes for Windows 10 end in October...

The Lakeville Park Commission’s unanimous vote to spend roughly $60.68 to extend support for a single Windows 10 computer at ClearPond Park crystallizes a small but telling moment where municipal operations meet the end of a major software lifecycle—and where pragmatic, cost-driven decisions...

Microsoft will stop issuing routine security and feature updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a hard cut that converts a decade of steady vendor maintenance into a single, calendar-driven risk event for hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide, and one that has provoked consumer outcry...

Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025 — that deadline forces a clear choice: upgrade to Windows 11 where possible, pay for short‑term Extended Security Updates, or move to a different operating system that keeps your hardware secure and useful for years to come...

Microsoft's last-minute concession to keep Windows 10 users from being immediately exposed after the platform's official end-of-support is a pragmatic patch, but it also crystallizes a bitter truth: the company is shifting the cost of security and hardware refreshes onto consumers while...

Three weeks is not a long time in the life of a PC, but when that window sits directly ahead of a fixed end-of-support deadline it becomes a hard stop: Windows 10 will stop receiving routine security and quality updates on October 14, 2025, and every Windows 10 user now has three practical...

Microsoft will stop issuing routine security and feature updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, leaving millions of PCs exposed unless users upgrade to Windows 11, enroll in Microsoft’s limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or move to another platform — and the decision has...

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...

Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates and support on October 14, 2025 — but you don’t have to lose your data or your PC’s usefulness the day the calendar turns: there are three practical, low‑risk paths to keep using the same hardware and preserve your files while you migrate, buy...