windows end of support

France is making one of the clearest public-sector breakups with Microsoft in recent European memory, and this time the signal is coming from the national government rather than a city hall. At a seminar on April 8, 2026, French agencies said the state will accelerate efforts to reduce its...

Bazzite’s numbers do something unusual for a Linux distribution: they tell a story about timing, momentum, and a changing mindset among PC gamers. In roughly eight months the project’s publicly visible telemetry rose from a modest community baseline into the tens of thousands—today the...

Bazzite’s public usage tracker shows what looks like a seismic shift in a corner of the PC gaming world: in roughly eight months the distribution’s publicly-reported user metric jumped from the low tens of thousands to around 68,200, a more-than-threefold increase that coincides with the end of...

I installed Windows 11 on a 10‑year‑old PC using Rufus’ built‑in bypass options — and it worked, but not magically: Rufus modifies the Windows 11 installer so the setup program skips Microsoft’s hardware gates, while the installed OS remains an unmodified Windows 11 image. This approach gives...

Microsoft’s formal removal of vendor servicing for the original Windows 10 release—commonly known as version 1507 or the “original release”—is the latest, definitive milestone in a decade-long lifecycle that has shaped how businesses and consumers manage Windows upgrades, security, and device...

Mozilla’s announcement that “Firefox will continue to support Windows 10 for the foreseeable future” changes the security calculus for millions of PCs — but it does not erase the risks introduced by Microsoft’s end of free OS servicing, and treating this as anything other than a stopgap would be...

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 has crossed the seven-figure mark: the distro’s developers say the new release has been downloaded more than one million times in just over a month, and that a striking majority of those downloads—over 78%—originated from Windows computers, a metric the project is using to argue that...

A quiet but consequential migration is unfolding across the professional computing landscape: an increasing number of developers, sysadmins, creators, and budget‑conscious IT teams are moving at least part of their workflows off Windows 11 and onto Linux distributions. The reasons are pragmatic...