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‘2025 continues to emerge as the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh,’ said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer. Microsoft is adding more free Windows 10 ...

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Windows 10 PCs can receive free security updates until October 2026. To qualify for free personal updates, enroll with a Microsoft account. Customers in any of the 30 EEA countries automatically ...

The August Patch Tuesday update for Windows fixes 107 security flaws. Among all the security flaws, 13 are ranked as critical. Also adds the new Black Screen of Death and Quick Machine Recovery.

If you have a PC running Windows 10, your machine will stop receiving security updates on Tuesday, Oct. 14. The decade-old operating system is still used by nearly 41% of PC owners and up to 400 ...